When Earth tips over to restore its rotational balance, sea levels shift around the globe—episodes scientists have now traced ...

The last ice age began roughly 120,000 years ago and ended about 11,500 years ago, but plenty of signs of this last period of ...

Sea-level changes offer an independent record of dramatic Jurassic and Cretaceous episodes when the solid Earth may have ...

The end of Sauron's rule over Middle-Earth was far from the end for this fantasy land's many inhabitants, and we're diving ...

Animals seem to appear in the fossil record fairly suddenly, a little over half a billion years ago. Yet rocks can preserve ...

Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra giant tortoise, was born before the Civil War. Scientists have now sequenced his genome to ...

In the laboratory, where the world outside the window had been completely dyed in the indigo of night, the pendant light on ...

Several times since the age of dinosaurs, the solid part of our planet has rolled over, drowning some continents and lifting ...

Stroke survivors whose undamaged brain half showed an older brain age had worse language problems and tended to gain less from therapy.

While the launch of Sputnik 1 represented a tremendous achievement for all of humanity, the U.S. reacted with fear.

Seven Havens, let's look back at what happened to Korra in Republic City on her journey to becoming the master of the four ...

For Dr. Opal Lee, she'd probably outdo most of us. The Fort Worth, Texas icon known around the world as the "Grandmother of ...