5+ hour, 50+ min ago  (280+ words) For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing "gravity holes," which are enormous depressions in the Earth's crust where the effects of gravity are significantly lower than average. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, University…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (375+ words) A team of geologists has found for the first time evidence that two ancient, continent-sized, ultrahot structures hidden beneath the Earth have shaped the planet's magnetic field for the past 265 million years. These two masses, known as large low-shear-velocity provinces…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (395+ words) Other types of humans were roaming around Europe long before Homo sapiens ever called it home. They improvised tools from whatever the landscape offered, and they did so way,waybefore scientists previously thought. Two new studies suggest that early hominins…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago  (543+ words) The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is coated by a thin watery layer....

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (547+ words) Scientists have long suspected that Mars was once teeming with water, a tropical oasis with vast river systems that may have been able to support life billions of years ago. To get a better picture of what such a lush…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (952+ words) After a series of weather delays threatened to derail their mission, scientists on Monday managed at last to set up camp on Antarctica's remote and fast-melting Thwaites Glacier. For the next few weeks, they will be attempting a difficult but…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (225+ words) A magnitude 4.6 earthquake shook Riverside County on Monday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake was centered seven miles from Indio. It occurred at a depth of 1.87 miles. The temblor was immediately followed by several aftershocks, at magnitudes 3.3, 3.4 and…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (542+ words) By creating a new map of Antarctica's subterranean landscape, researchers have uncovered a vast topography of previously hidden hills, ridges, and even entire mountain ranges lurking miles beneath its frozen exterior. The findings, detailed in a new study published in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (521+ words) Gary Miller / GettyPeople watch as Hawaii's K'lauea volcano erupts on May 11, 2025, in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. Gary Miller / GettyA closer view of K'lauea volcano erupting in Hawaii on May 11, 2025, in Kailua Kona. Arnold Welianto / AFP / GettyMount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupts, pictured from…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (481+ words) The Thwaites Glacier, an enormous shelf of ice in the Antarctic, has been given the ominous nickname of the "Doomsday Glacier" " because if it were to change collapse, it could have profound implications for the future of sea level rise…...