Australia looks enormous on a map, but most of it is a territory humans simply can’t survive in. The continent’s interior is a harsh furnace of deserts, drought, and vanishing water sources, leaving ...

On November 7, it was announced that a new underwater surveillance network based on the Speartooth unmanned underwater ...

Continents drift apart in slow, powerful motions that reshape the world above and below your feet. A new study now shows that ...

The EU has supply options to derisk its supply chains from China, particularly in precious metals. Currently, the leading European producers leverage advanced operations across Scandinavia, Poland, ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing ...

As we consider how we have changed since STM first hit Sunday breakfast tables in 2004, that notion of WA’s size — of land, ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

Climate change is speeding the spread of global pathogens. Can an early-warning system for animal viruses help stop pandemics ...

The skit economy is estimated to be Nigeria’s third-largest entertainment sector, with a net worth of over US$31 million.

Stormy weekend ahead for large parts of Australia, with severe weather warnings already issued in at least two states on ...

His fossils, collected over a decade at a Jurassic site in New South Wales, have revealed a new species of non-biting midge.