On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

In a fascinating intersection of space exploration and Earth science, NASA’s Apollo astronauts once trained on the alien-like lava fields of Idaho’s Craters of the Moon, preparing to explore the ...

Talley’s documentary, The Stones Are Speaking, covers the saga of Collins’s groundbreaking discovery with a little more ...

In the first chapter of the second volume, “Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History” (1999), she tells ...

Our esteemed editor invited me to lunch a while ago. After three hours I had to leave because Qantas doesn’t even hold planes ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered a missing piece in the puzzle of Mars' past atmosphere. Scientists discovered ...

This story originally appeared in the April 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. Beautiful scenery, historic landmarks and ...

If stones could speak, Ireland’s place names would be their voice—a living memory etched across fields, rivers, and mountains ...

Tucked between the rolling farmlands of central Iowa lies a geological anomaly so striking, you’ll wonder if you’ve somehow teleported out of the Hawkeye State altogether – Ledges State Park in Madrid ...

That’s Copper Falls State Park in Mellen, Wisconsin—a 3,068-acre slice of paradise that somehow flies under the radar while ...

The last time I wrote an article here, it was to talk about Afar Region volcanoes, and I promised more to come. This is still a project that I have in mind, but that will have to wait a little ...