A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

A new study led by Prof. Xiao Wenjiao from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Huge, dark pillars of stone rise from the dirt. They are perfectly hexagonal. They stand shoulder-to-shoulder like a ...

The long-standing question of how the Green River cut through the Uinta Mountains has taken a step closer to resolution. New ...

National parks bring a plethora of beauty for all to enjoy year-round, but not without the risk of rockfall at some popular ...

All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Oilfield cementing additives are essential for adjusting slurry properties such as thickening time, strength development, ...

The intimidatingly named Gates of Lodore marks the entrance to the 700-metre deep Canyon of Lodore that slices straight ...

As worldwide demand for rare earth elements and other similar minerals rises — as do tensions among the United States, China and now Greenland — South Dakota is experiencing its own debate over its ...

A federal judge has refused to block a winter oil and gas exploration project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska that ...

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...