With each passing year, new destinations take over as the latest hot spots for tourists, but thinking outside of the box can ...

Researchers at Göttingen University have uncovered new evidence that some of Earth’s most precious metals began their journey far deeper than once thought. Working with volcanic rocks from ocean ...

The cleansing of the island has, to the delight of conservationists and scientists working on the project, resulted in a ...

On a remote volcanic island in the Pacific, a small, secretive bird has quietly rewritten the script on extinction. After ...

The sturdy, well-built structure was likely constructed on dry land at a time when sea levels were much lower than they are ...

Scientists have uncovered an extensive underwater vent system near Milos, Greece, hidden along active fault lines beneath the ...

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s ...

Let’s image the simplest, most boring volcano possible. It consists of a magma balloon fed by a straw. The ground is perfectly flat above the balloon. Magma comes up the straw at a constant ...