University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. Until now the inner core was widely thought of as a solid sphere.

Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

TIMES is the title of the international team's project, which is an acronym for "Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences." ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

Scientists found that fruit fly embryos can develop through multiple genetic paths, not just one. This challenges traditional ideas.

And few fossils capture our imagination quite like those of the dinosaurs who lived millions of years ago. This interactive ...

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), potentially triggering colorful auroras over the northern U.S. A powerful ...

Shares of Australia’s Evolution Mining rose to a four-year high on Wednesday after the country’s second-biggest gold miner reported an improved, better-than-expected output in the second ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...