geology

By Matt Pawlik From Los Angeles Times Los Angeles–In teaching geology, many professors might crack open a textbook or click through a PowerPoint presentation. Nick Van Buer, an associate professor ...

An unassuming lump of volcanic rock hides an amusing secret inside, boarding on the absurd. The blue quartz ...

The land Down Under may not have been so far down under once upon a time. Rock discovered ...

Many animals, particularly migrating animals such as birds, have a magnetic sixth sense that allows them to trace their ...

Geologists have recently discovered a 'zombie volcano' in Matata—a small town located in the North Island of New Zealand. ...

We started 2016 with a bang.

Officially, the world is still in the Holocene Epoch, a geology-related category spanning roughly from 9,700 B.C. to ...

The center of the Earth may be a lot different than you think.

"It is ... likely that the stones were first used in a local monument, somewhere near the quarries, ...

Geologist Dr. Alexander Koltypin hypothesizes that prehistoric ruts in stone were left by heavy-duty ancient vehicles—not light chariots ...

Researchers at the University of California–Santa Barbara announced Monday that they found a surprising helium-3 leak along a ...

The ever-burning flames of legend not only reveal the spiritual and cultural rituals of the past, but can ...

Is the Earth now spinning through the “Age of Humans?” More than a few scientists think so.

Off the coast of Cornwall, at the southern tip of the UK, on a clear day, the Isles ...

Mysterious holes that opened in Siberia this summer had people blaming aliens, meteorites, and missiles. Scientists say it ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we ...

Decades of research on landscape formation have relied on a theory now proven false, according to Stanford scientists. ...

The Altiplano plateau in the central Andes—and most likely the entire mountain range—was formed through a series of ...

Pangea Recently I had the honor of meeting a lady, a true lady in every sense of the ...

Did rock form around this man-made vessel 500 million years ago or were those who found it mistaken?

A 4.7 Magnitude quake was one of three in California on the anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.

The Grand Canyon may have been around during the time of the dinosaurs, which is much older than ...

Fossil hunters can now use artificial intelligence to look for rich sites with a new method that saves ...

NASA’s Curiosity “ingested its first solid sample” of soil on Mars for analysis, the U.S. space agency said ...

Water trapped inside lunar soils probably comes from the solar wind—the steady stream of charged particles from the ...

A recently discovered super-Earth orbiting a nearby star may be at least one-third diamond.

For the first time in history, dust grains captured from an asteroid in space are now being analyzed ...