Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.

Studying tree rings helped scientists pinpoint when Mount Rainier last sent a lahar down its steep slopes, which could help ...

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A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

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Stable isotope analysis suggests that, before Roman aqueducts, residents of the city may have soaked in dirty water ...

Department of Geological Sciences that used Martian meteorite to understand the volcanic process on Mars has been published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment. Martian ...

Popocatépetl emerged in the crater of other volcanoes in its current form more than 20,000 years ago and has been active ...

Bermuda has long been a geologic mystery, as its formation doesn’t match up with those of typical islands created by magma hotpots, such as Hawai‘i. A new study finds that Bermuda rests on a ...

Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

Fossil Falls is an incredibly accessible natural wonder, and yet it feels like discovering one of the state’s best-kept secrets. It’s also a crash course in California history, transporting visitors ...

Figuring out the eruption history of Afar volcanoes is taking longer than I expected, so in the meantime, I will have to post about other topics. And lately, one that has been present in my volcano ...