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 ...

The “Boring Billion” is an informal description of a billion-year-period of Earth history (1.8 billion to 800 million years ago) where tectonics, climate, and biological evolution remained ...

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 ...

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 plates kept a steady ...

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 ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over ...

No, periods can’t “restart” after menopause. Menopause occurs after you have gone 365+1 days without a period, and it has occurred naturally. Your menstrual cycles are over, and you will not have ...