Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

But recent findings are shaking up that belief ... features like mountains and volcanoes, and it drives plate tectonics through slow-moving convection currents. Scientists have long known that ...

The lithosphere is broken up into what are called tectonic plates. In the case of Earth ... plates ride on the asthenosphere. These plates move in relation to one another at one of three types ...

The tropics, where biodiversity and interactions among species abound, provide an alternative view of relationships between ...

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Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Demonstrators with ‘mass deportation’ signs gathered as the First Minister warned about the threats to Scotland’s democracy.

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

Protesters holding “mass deportation now” signs gathered in Glasgow as John Swinney held a special cross-party summit to ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

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