Will Smith is standing on a wall of ice as snow swirls around him. His bright yellow La Sportiva ice climbing boots are kicked into the snow. “Hey Will,” polar athlete Richard Parks shouts from the ...

*National Geographic has unveiled the official trailer for its ambitious new original series “Pole to Pole,” starring and executive-produced by Will Smith. The seven-episode docuseries, five years in ...

More than half a century after humans set foot on the Moon, the final frontier still fuels our imagination. Back then, it was all about doing what had never been done before and doing it first. In ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science — the origin of life on Earth. That fateful spark is believed to have occurred on the ocean’s ...

Rare earth elements are vital to new technologies and industry but hard to obtain. A new project led by UC Davis and funded by a grant from ARPA-E aims to develop acid-tolerant bacteria that can ...

Earth has a magnetic field, including two magnetic poles North and South. However, despite it being a seeming constant, experts say humans have been tracking those points for centuries and they are ...

What began as a simple crawl through a forgotten drain pipe turned into a terrifying descent into a massive underground river cave. The camera captures rising water, collapsing tunnels, and passages ...

New research reveals that Earth's Northern Hemisphere is growing darker faster than the Southern Hemisphere is. Bill Anders, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Earth has been dimming for decades, ...

Alien: Earth definitely gets a lot right, but after watching the season 1 finale, I'm torn, because it gets a lot of things wrong, too. There's clear commitment to certain aspects of the Alien ...

After Beijing exerted its power over the valuable magnets as leverage, other countries started to add production, but only incrementally. And China is far ahead. After Beijing exerted its power over ...

Over the past two centuries, the construction of thousands of dams has done more than just tame rivers – it has shifted the Earth’s North Pole about a meter from its original position. By storing ...