Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.

The Nullarbor is riddled with wombat burrows. New research shows a way to detect these from space using high-resolution ...

A mysterious structure in a mountainous region of New Mexico has taken the internet by storm, sparking speculations of a UFO crash site.

Is it the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of America? The answer may depend on where you live. Here's a look at how we collectively agree what a place is called ...

NASA scientists used satellite measurements to map out local subsidence and uplift across the Golden State, which plays into ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which ...