Researchers estimate up to approximately 50 percent of plate dynamics are driven by heat from the Earth’s core and as much as 20 terawatts of heat flow between the core and the mantle

"This is one of the most critical but least understood parts of the process of how cold clouds form"

“The bird would have been a cross between a large seagull and a diving bird like a cormorant, but likely had teeth,” says expedition leader

"We have a new understanding of the behavior of caldera dynamics that can be applied to other volcanoes all over the world," study's lead author says

“Everybody’s heard of blood diamonds, but maybe people haven’t heard of blood cobalt or tantalum or lithium”

Seeds from a site in Northern Israel are the ancestors of today's fava beans

Old star offers sneak preview of the future

Scientists examined part of Mars' Utopia Planitia region, in the mid-northern latitudes, with the orbiter's ground-penetrating Shallow Radar instrument

Rutgers’ Sonia Tikoo helped perform groundbreaking Chicxulub crater study

“Our most important finding is that the Boron isotope ratios are highly variable, indicating that the source of carbon within the mantle changed with geological time on Earth” 

The team led by Sami Nabhan of the Freie Universität Berlin studied ancient rock formations from South Africa's Barberton greenstone belt

“The coincidence of an impact with a major climate change is nothing short of remarkable,” researcher says