Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy. The ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

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My father once said, “Wouldn’t it be great if they could find a way to split water easily?” He was a chemical engineer who disdained waste and pollution and was keenly aware of how clean hydrogen ...

A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...

A new study published in Nature Geoscience, by researchers from IDL – Instituto Dom Luiz, at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, has gathered seismic evidence that could explain a ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

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