A long-lost landmass, mostly hidden beneath the waves of the South Pacific Ocean, has taken a major step toward full ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than 900°C, radioactive elements shifted upward, cooling and strengthening the ...

How did the same dinosaur footprints appear thousands of miles apart—on completely different continents? 🦕 This mind-bending ...

For billions of years, Earth’s continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

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Over tens of millions of years, as the familiar story goes, these giant hunks of rock slowly split apart, breaking up at a rate of just a millimeter — a little more than the thickness of a credit card ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The continents are rapidly drying out and the earth’s vast ...

"... a pivotal event in our planet's history." This is an Inside Science story. Earth's first continents may have emerged from the oceans roughly 750 million years ...

Experts believe a giant mass of hot rock known as the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA) is heading toward New York City. A new study suggests that the NAA could be responsible for the split between ...

This review systematically synthesizes the classification (melanoma skin cancer [MSC], non-melanoma skin cancers [NMSCs]) and global epidemiology of skin cancer based on 2000–2024 literature. MSC, ...