The Weis Earth Science Museum is expected to move to downtown Appleton this fall. It opened in Menasha in 2001.

Christians hold that the eight survivors of The Great Flood (Noah and his wife, their three sons, and their wives) disembarked the Ark on Mount Ararat and then migrated to ...

The Weis Earth Science Museum first opened in November 2001. Hailed by an Appleton Post-Crescent editorial as "a rare jewel," the museum was designated as Wisconsin's official mineralogical museum ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

Welcome to Falling Waters State Park in Chipley, where Florida’s tallest waterfall plunges 73 dramatic feet into a cylindrical limestone sinkhole, then vanishes completely underground like nature’s ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

Less research on environmental risks means we will be forced to operate with an incomplete understanding of those risks.

Wave-like landforms on Mars provide clues about the planet’s icy history, its potential to support life, and the behavior of ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

Earth is full of surprising secrets that sometimes seem like they belong in science fiction stories. From strange natural events to hidden places deep underground or in the oceans, many facts ...

China appears to have offered U.S. and European auto giants something of a reprieve over a rare earth shortage. China's Ministry of Commerce on Saturday said it was willing to establish a "green ...