Celebrate National Earth Science Week with fun, all-ages activities included with Museum admission! Meet Dibblee Curator of Earth Science Jonathan Hoffman, Ph.D., and other staff members who work with ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo Department of Geology is about much more than rocks and minerals. Its faculty and students perform cutting-edge research on everything from how glaciers react ...

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Why it's incredible: The mountain looks like a floating island from the sky. Mount Roraima is a plateau with near-vertical sides that sits on the triple border point between Brazil, Venezuela and ...

New name reflects more than a century of evolution and a commitment to understanding the whole planet Beginning in August 2026, the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Geological Sciences ...

Earth Science Week 2025, an annual worldwide celebration of the geosciences led by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI), is underway from October 12–18, 2025, with the theme “Energy Resources for ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core ...

Science in the silver age: Aetna, a classical theory of volcanic activity -- Some Neo-Platonic and Stoic influences on mineralogy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Mechanical mineralogy -- ...

This article is part of a package in collaboration with Forbes on time capsules, preserving information and communicating with the future. Read more from the report. Stuff is old where I live, in ...

The Department of Geology is about much more than rocks and minerals. Its faculty and students perform cutting-edge research on everything from how glaciers react to climate change to how molten lava ...