Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures ...

As Africa undergoes a dramatic geological shift that may one day split the continent in two, here’s everything you need to ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and ...

Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth's magnetic field and the way continents and tectonic plates have shifted across millennia – but for some periods, the geological ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

When now 16-year-old Helen got her first period, it was her dad who helped her with it as he was the parent who happened to be at home. Chatting about periods with young people can be awkward, even ...

Renita White, MD, is an obstetrician/gynecologist at Georgia Obstetrics and Gynecology in Atlanta, Georgia. Her areas of expertise include fibroids, irregular vaginal ...

New Haven, Conn. — Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic ...

A new study presented at the 2025 EPSC/DPS Joint Meeting proposes that the rarity of specific geological and atmospheric conditions necessary for technologically advanced life significantly limits the ...

Demi Lovato, Jennifer Lawrence, Brooks Nader and more stars have inspired others to speak candidly about their periods. For far too long, reproductive health issues were treated as taboo subjects, but ...