We are deeply saddened to confirm the death of Kirk Handley, a long-standing and highly valued member of staff at the School ...

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth's ...

A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, an area that could give rise ...

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If you want a true underground Michigan experience, this is the one. Quincy Mine takes you below ground and leaves you with stories.

The White House, led by Donald Trump, has ramped up efforts to pressure Denmark into seceding Greenland to the US.

In high enough doses, hydrogen cyanide can kill an adult human in minutes, but the chemical may be the reason why we’re here in the first place.