Volcanoes are Earth’s geologic architects. They’ve created more than 80 percent of our planet’s surface, laying the foundation that has allowed life to thrive. Their explosive force crafts mountains ...

Sunny skies are back in San Francisco’s forecast, but the fun never left.  Here are some of the top events to check out this ...

When you think about our origin story, and of our planet -- among all of the planets in the cosmos -- there is a deep ...

The deep interiors of ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune may contain a previously unknown form of matter, based on new computational research by Carnegie scientists Cong Liu and Ronald Cohen.

This May the Fourth activity has students create their own ‘Star Wars’ character based on their research about real-world ...

The broader Coronado National Memorial deserves exploration beyond just the cave, though the cave is admittedly the main ...

Comedian Jim Gaffigan once joked, “My favorite ride at Disney was the air conditioned bus back to the airport.” When asked ...

The temperature in the cavern stays at a steady 72 degrees regardless of what’s happening on the surface. It could be snowing ...

The Earth is 4.54 billion years old. If we start counting every second without a stop, it will take us a very long time to reach such a huge number. Scientists have not come up with this huge number ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar system, they consider it likely that 6–40% of this material must have ...

Spatio-temporal regulation of gene expression and cellular behavior is critical for ensuring developmental robustness in all multicellular organisms. The mechanisms regulating robustness are often ...

Deep beneath our feet, Earth’s core may be far less rigid than scientists once believed. A new laboratory result suggests the planet’s innermost region can behave as both solid and subtly mobile, ...