Here's what happened when a fifth-grade teacher teamed with colleagues to create comprehensive climate lessons that could be ...

The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the fifth largest planet in our solar system ...

The Earth is almost a sphere. These are its main layers, starting with the outermost: crust - relatively thin and rocky mantle - has the properties of a solid, but can flow very slowly outer core ...

but according to a new paper in the journal National Science Review, it may have been created when a Mars-sized planet slammed into the Earth billions of years ago. The D'' layer is characterized ...

The ozone layer is a part of Earth’s atmosphere that captures some of the Sun’s ultraviolet (UV) light emissions. When the ozone layer is compromised, its ability to absorb radiation weakens ...

This paper will take you as far back in the climate record as is currently possible, to the Archean Eon, from 3.9 to 2.5 billion ... in North America. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 258 ...

Meteorites that strike Earth don ... its geological layers. “This will fundamentally change how we study meteorites from Mars,” Herd said. Andrew Paul is Popular Science‘s staff writer ...

Among other winners of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition are videos of a fruit fly embryo and of water droplets ...

Back in the 1980s, scientists made the shocking discovery that human pollution had worn a hole clean through Earth's protective ozone layer ... cooperation and science-based decision-making ...

Today's New York Times Games Connections is a difficult collection of sixteen words, and you have few tries to get them into the right groups. The T-1000 is yet another famous figure from film to ...

Three Niagara sparkling wines bested all the others in a blind tasting of 131 bubbles from six nations in the Americas.