In my prior life as a high school earth science teacher, I would always add a unit during the second half of the school year that was not included in the text book. It was on soils, agriculture and ...

A 15-year-old proves you can't always believe what you read, even if it's in a schoolbook. The mistake that 15-year-old Bradley Beyer detected in his earth science textbook is not the sort of thing ...

Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away as Greece and what’s now Pakistan. Probably driven by ...

No, oxygen didn't catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth's first multicellular organisms. The result defies a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of ...