Cetacean Opps was just recently canonized in the Star Trek universe, but much about them remains unknown, but all of that is ...

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 ...

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.

The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which inspired the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The Last of Us, emerged about 133 million years ago when dinosaurs roamed Earth, research has found. In ...

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 ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

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.

Research led by Earth scientists at the University of Southampton has uncovered evidence of rhythmic surges of molten mantle ...

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