Rather than shutting down all at once like a "big train wreck," the Juan de Fuca plate is ripping apart piece by piece, ...

Squeaky shoes are part of the symphony of a basketball game, when rubber soles rasp against the hardwood floors as players jab step, cut and pivot and defenders move their feet to stay in front of ...

About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...

A huge crack is slowly opening across Africa, and scientists say it could one day create a brand-new ocean. Although this change will take millions of years, researchers are closely watching how the ...

Earth is constantly moving, although we don’t notice it. Deep beneath the ocean, far away from cities and human activity, huge geological processes are slowly reshaping the surface of our planet. A ...

We have all heard sound, but has anyone ever seen it? Sound is all around us, but we rarely stop to think about what it really is. Every time you speak, play an instrument, clap your hands, or hear ...