The balance of different varieties of atoms inside a person’s teeth can reveal a week-by-week record of rainfall and protein ...

Fortunately, there’s an interactive map that can help with that. As Boing Boing explains, TimeMap.org combines the what, who, and where of history into one convenient world map.

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Teaching our kids about the planet, its resources, and how to appreciate and protect them is one of the most important t ...

The Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms resources are designed to support students to engage in science practices—ask questions to investigate, collect data to use as evidence, use models to ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Marc Chavez is founder and director of Native Like Water, an organization he started in 2000 with educational and cultural programming to reconnect Indigenous youth with the history and heritage ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...