Peter Graven, a St. Francis science teacher, shares insights into his classroom, his passion for geology and what he enjoys ...

These methods are how the nuclear industry safely manages the 10,000 metric tons of spent fuel waste that reactors produce as they churn out 10% of the world’s electricity every ...

"The current rapid rise in day length can thus be attributed primarily to human influences," said professor Benedikt Soja.

Today, the Sahara is a 3.6-million-square-mile expanse of blistering sand, sweeping dunes, and barren rock. It defines the very concept of an inhospitable wasteland. Yet, hidden deep within the arid ...

U.S. Geological Survey is designated by the Federal Aviation Administration as the entity to issue Volcano Observatory ...

Although commonly described as a tsunami, the titular wave in The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is more likely an example of a large rogue wave. For centuries, sailors spoke of two maritime ...

About 300,000 years ago, an early human was foraging for food in an expanse of grassland. She spied a cluster of mushrooms poking out of dark soil, picked one of the brown caps, and examined its ...

A molten planet is a planetary object; a surface or deep interior of which is mostly or wholly in a liquid-rock (magma) form as opposed to solid rock. This situation may happen in two distinct forms, ...

Evidence suggests that China's "cradle of civilization" experienced marked climate disasters and social upheavals during the mid-late Holocene (around 3,000 years ago). However, the direct causes and ...

To mark International Women’s Day (8 March), we spoke to Meghan Plumridge, User Support Specialist for Machine Learning. When Meghan joined ECMWF ten years ago, she wasn’t a computer scientist. She ...

Educational travel is one of the most powerful ways families can grow together and this is especially true in places like Antarctica. “When a child is standing three feet away from a penguin colony, ...

As scientists work to understand what makes Green Bay unique, their findings could aid whitefish recovery efforts throughout the Great Lakes. Michigan biologists, for example, have drawn inspiration ...