Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...

Underwater eruptions may seem distant to folks on land, but they have global significance. The 2022 Hunga Tonga event, for ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...

Continents and oceans have scientific definitions that underpin international law. The idea of dividing the world into ...

While there are differences in rules, each state and territory has a strict zero-tolerance policy for alcohol and drugs for both L- and P-plate drivers. Here is a run-through of critical rules and ...

It comes down to where Earth's tectonic plates meet. Earth's surface is broken up into massive slabs of solid rock that make up seven major and eight minor plates. Most of the boundaries between ...

A criminal in hot pursuit by police makes a sharp turn down a side street, jumps out the driver side door then quickly swaps out their license plates with a backup pair hiding in the trunk.

This week GNS released a high resolution update to the national Active Faults Database, detailing where the active faults are across the motu to support planning and engineering.

Crypto researcher Alex Wacy highlights the potential consequences of nations establishing strategic bitcoin reserves. Incorporating Bitcoin into the global financial system could bolster ...

Assad’s ouster marks “a tectonic shift” in the region, with “consequences that are going to reverberate” well beyond the Middle East, Mehran Kamrava, a professor of government at ...