Researchers discovered the body of water—now the largest known underground thermal lake in the world—while investigating a ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

Fossil collectors in Florida have discovered an ancient sinkhole, now at the bottom of a river, which holds the remains of animals rarely seen in the state, including a type of giant armadillo, giant ...

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling ...

Ice seems temporary. It melts in a glass. It disappears at a sunbeam’s touch. It ebbs with the first relief of spring. But ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, a terrifying natural phenomenon called a “brinicle” forms—a freezing underwater ice spike ...

Whether through your diet or supplements, these are the top nutrients you need to keep your body in top shape as you age. Lara Vukelich is a freelance writer in San Diego, California. She writes ...

More than 8,000 years ago, Great Britain was connected to mainland Europe by a landmass known as Doggerland. It stretched across much of the North Sea, from the east coast of England to Denmark, the ...

Many people date partners roughly their age, but some people have quite large age gaps in their relationships. However, there has not been a lot of systematic psychological research to find out ...

The idea of entire cities being plunged underwater might sound like the plot ... But others incorporate more uncertain events, such as abrupt ice shelf collapse. As a result, these models produce ...

The fact that the last Ice Age resulted in rising sea levels was a lucky break. These caves essentially became the perfect low-oxygen environments for bone preservation. “Typically as a paleontologist ...

ICE, a key U.S. immigration agency, has ramped up deportation efforts under the Trump administration, including using military planes and expanding enforcement near schools and churches ...