One recent morning near the mouth of a canyon in southwest Colorado Springs, Christine Siddoway placed a few peculiar rocks ...

Sedimentary rocks have unveiled a fascinating chapter in Earth’s geological history, revealing ancient ocean floor cooling.

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their formation. This makes them extremely important in climate research. This led ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...

A new Stanford study challenges the decades-old view that the rise of land plants half a billion years ago dramatically changed the shapes of rivers. Apatite. Rhymes with appetite, and fittingly, ...

Why it's incredible: The rock formation looks like a small family of whales. Hin Sam Wan, or Three Whale Rock, is a natural formation in Thailand that is named after its striking resemblance to a ...

There’s nothing wrong with switching things up. In fact, I’d say that most musicians out there have radically changed their style at least once in their careers. It just comes with the territory of ...

Almost 20 years ago, New Scientist ran a feature called “Imagine Earth without people”, a thought experiment about what would happen to our planet over thousands of years if humanity suddenly ...

The Beatles’ influence still reverberates across the music landscape today. Imagine what it was like as they were actually performing their amazing musical feats in the 60s. Naturally, plenty of ...

Authors recieved research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Christine Siddoway has received research grants from the NSF Office of Polar Programs. Rebecca Flowers has received ...