People have long scratched their heads trying to understand how life ever got going after the formation of Earth billions of years ago. Now, chemists have partly unlocked the recipe by creating a ...

A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.

In the case of our 'string around the Earth' puzzle, the radius is being increased by 15cm, so we need to know that as a fraction of the original radius. So what is the radius to start with?

This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon Charon with a “kiss,” and more.

Inspired by The Atlantic's "Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle," we have launched an Asia-Pacific-specific version of the satellite imagery quiz. Using unaltered images found on Google Earth, ...