Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

A continent the size of Greenland has been found buried deep beneath Southern Europe, reshaping how scientists understand the ...

Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under the Pacific Ocean. The blobs have their roots 2,900 kilometers below the surface, almost halfway ...

Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting continents that have long since disappeared. These maps, coupled with modern ...

Scientists have discovered that stretching of the continents is likely to have caused one of the most extreme and abrupt episodes of global warming in Earth history. Scientists at the University of ...

A new study published in the journal Archaeology in Oceania has revealed shocking information about modern humans in Australia, dramatically rewriting the continent’s history. According to the ...

Visualisation of seismic model S40RTS (Ritsema et al., 2011), showing the LLVP (large red area) under Africa, made using the GPlates software. Credit: Jeroen Ritsema et al. A new study led by ...

When saltwater fish long ago evolved to live in fresh water, many of them also evolved a more sophisticated hearing system, ...