Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

China regularly leverages its control over the rare earth market to shut down competition or advance its interests in ...

The Earth's magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nanoparticles and materials.

The Trump administration is carrying out investigations of semiconductor and pharmaceutical imports on national security grounds.

Our Changing Planet is an ambitious natural history series exploring the issues facing the planet’s most threatened ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

The Earth’s magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nano particles and materials. Scientists at Flinders ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Because salt has been detected on Mars, it is likely that Martian mudflows are also salty, much like Earth’s mud volcanoes, ...