Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

The rapid pace of melting glaciers is causing profound environmental and geopolitical changes due to shifting national ...

A comparison of polar sea ice extents on two random days does not provide enough information to determine whether or not ...

In the Greenlandic language, the name for Greenland is Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning “the land of the people.” In fact, fewer ...

The National Geographic Society’s important work has been hidden in the shadow of its parent company. Now, it’s banking on a major ad campaign to raise its profile.

This outpouring of gas, smoke, ash, and debris changed the climate of the entire planet for several centuries ... of the Yellowstone Caldera. Picture: US National Park Service But the area’s complex ...

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It affects the daily lives of almost everyone on the planet, in all corners of the globe ... (Hardesty et al., 2016), ...

So this new methodology coming out of Brazil is undoubtedly welcome news. According to Phys.org, "the expectation is that the ...