Forget what you learned in school—Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

Artificial light at night is causing ecosystems to release more carbon into the atmosphere, according to new research that ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is ...

Bob Kelly, professor emeritus of archaeology at UW, excavates a site in Wyoming. Kelly led a new study showing that, if Europeans had arrived in North America a few hundred years earlier, they would ...

A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent. By Franz Lidz A new study has found that a thickly forested sliver of Michigan’s Upper ...

New research suggests dinosaur populations were still thriving in North America before the asteroid strike, but it's only one ...

Roughly 155 million years ago, a continent called Argoland broke off from what is now Australia, and then vanished without a ...

The world would need to plant a forest the size of North America in order to offset planet-warming emissions from the 200 largest oil and gas companies, new research has found. A study published ...