Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

If you’ve ever taken a trip to a Disney theme park and felt like you didn’t want to leave the magic behind, it’s possible ...

Neil Young’s 'Decade' album was among my first pieces of music on vinyl. Not until well into middle age did I come to understand the song “Helpless.” Neil Young is his own genre — an acquired taste ...

If you are training for special tactics officer (STO)/combat rescue officer (CRO) selection and your base pool only goes to 5 feet, it’s understandable to be concerned about your ability to practice ...

A day after Thursday’s anxiety-inducing fake out, Friday turned into Redemption Day on Wall Street. The Dow ended the day 493 points higher, or 1.08%, after gaining as much as 800 points earlier in ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside Earth—hidden formations that have puzzled researchers for decades. New ...

The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around ...

While the Earth has gone through some dramatic climate changes in its 4.6-billion-year history, natural processes like silicate weathering can help return things to a comfortable equilibrium. A new ...

PROTECT GREEN LAKE. DURING THE SUMMER. GREEN LAKE CAN BE ONE OF WISCONSIN’S MOST POPULAR DESTINATIONS, DRAWING MORE THAN 2.2 MILLION VISITORS THIS YEAR. BUT LAST MONTH, THE LAKE’S HEALTH CALLED INTO ...