- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- January 17th, 2015
Watch: How Plate Tectonics Work, as Explained by Science
New video explains how and why our good old Earth's appearance drastically changed over the millennia
- Nature
- By Laura Sinpetru
- December 18th, 2014
Earth's Entrails Hold Enough Water to Fill the Pacific Ocean, Researchers Argue
Study claims young Earth made its own water through geologic processes, eventually released some of it to the surface
- Space
- By Laura Sinpetru
- September 8th, 2014
Ginormous Ice Plates Are Shuffling Around on Jupiter's Moon Europa
The movement of the plates indicates the moon's surface is connected to a buried ocean
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 11th, 2014
Ancient Asteroid Impact Made Dinosaur-Killing Space Rock Look like a Pebble
The newly-discovered impact occurred when the planet was very young
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- December 6th, 2013
Mechanisms Underlying the 2011 Japan Earthquake Revealed
Researchers were not expecting such a tremor from this location
- Space
- By Tudor Vieru
- August 14th, 2012
Plate Tectonics Discovered on the Red Planet
The phenomenon was thought to be unique to Earth
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 26th, 2012
Mechanism Driving Plate Tectonics Called into Question
This research could reveal more clues about the origins of life
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 1st, 2012
When Himalayas Will Stop Growing
Study sheds lights on factors controlling the process
- Science Blog
- By Tudor Vieru
- February 10th, 2012
North Pole Is Next Waypoint for All Continents
The ice island will be entirely gone within 100 million years
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- January 6th, 2012
Analyzing the Most Stable Core of the American Continent
This craton has been around for billions of years
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- November 28th, 2011
Subduction Is More than 2 Billion Years Old
New evidence to confirm this was found in African mines
- Nature
- By Tudor Vieru
- September 24th, 2011
Plate Tectonics May Trigger Pole Swaps
Such a cycle takes several million years to complete
