Antarctica, the coldest and most remote continent, remains largely unexplored due to its extreme conditions. However, private ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

The person, nicknamed “Pink,” whose facial bones were found by scientists, is thought to have lived in ancient Iberia roughly one million years before Homo Sapiens inhabited the European continent ...

"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. See the rise and fall of ...