Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

In the late 1700s, while inspecting a coal mine in southwest England, a young surveyor named William Smith noticed a surprising pattern: from one location to the next, rock layers (or "strata") were ...

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Europe's missing dinosaurs mystery solved as new research shows horned dinosaurs lived on the continent but were ...

Smith College is constructing a geothermal campus energy project. While the Northampton City Council approved an update to the city’s building code that bans the use of fossil fuels in new ...