March 2017

The Earth's Crust Is Getting Thinner Than Ever Before

Pawel Toczynski via Getty Images If you looked back at Earth 170 million years ago, you’d find a very different planet…

Tyrannosaurus Rex Was a Sensitive Lover, Scientists Find

Despite its fearsome teeth and cumbersome body the T. rex was a sensitive lover according to a new study. Despite its …

World's Biggest Dinosaur Footprint Found in 'Australia's Jurassic Park'

Richard Hunter and a sauropod track in the Walmadany area in the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia CREDIT: DAMIAN KELL…

Scientists Respond to Criticisms of a New Geological Epoch

Earth has arguably entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene (Credit: riverpollution.wordpress.com) 'Irr…

Live Inside an Active Volcano on Aogashima Island

Living Inside Japan’s Active Volcano Would you live in an environment that is unpredictably dangerous like Aogashima …

Rocks That Tell Our Industrial History

Tunelkobako hondar zementuzko egitura. Arg. Nikole Arrieta/EHU Researchers in the UPV/EHU's Department of Analytic…

Big L.A. Earthquake Could Cause Beach Areas to Sink Up to 3 Feet in Seconds

Big L.A. Earthquake Could Cause Beach Areas to Sink Up to 3 Feet in Seconds The Newport-Inglewood fault has long been …

How A.I. captured a volcano's changing lava lake

Artificial intelligence onboard NASA's Earth Observing 1 (EO-1) spacecraft assisted in imaging an eruption at Erta…

Scientists Discover Gold Literally Growing on Trees in the Outback

Scientists Discover Gold Literally Growing on Trees in the Outback. For the first time, scientists have discovered that g…

See the World’s Largest Collection of Fluorescent Rocks

World-famous mine is a hidden geological marvel aglow with surreal display of fluorescence In a New Jersey mine spanning …

Mars' Volcanoes, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct at Same Time

Mars' volcanoes, Earth's dinosaurs went extinct at same time New NASA research reveals that the giant Martian…

Geologists Develop App to Print 3-D Terrain Models of Any Place on Earth

Today's geology lesson is all about anticlines. Students can read all they want about geological folds, axial p…

Gemstone Guide: Classification of Gemstones

Gemstone Guide: Classification of Gemstones A gemstone is a mineral or rock, which can be used in jewelry after cutt…