Maya Wei-Haas

Geologic clues from our planet’s distant past reveal that today’s coastlines won’t last forever—but others will arise to take their place.

The hidden fragment, dating as old as 1.3 billion years, is helping scientists trace the history of the mysterious “lost continent” of Zealandia.

The tracks at New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are upending past assumptions on when humans first ventured into North and South America.

While their blasts can no doubt wreak devastation, they also create a fresh canvas that fosters life of every hue.

A scientific instrument that collapsed in the deep sea allowed scientists to make one of the most precise calculations yet for the abyss known as Challenger Deep.

After one of the Canary Islands’ worst volcanic eruptions in centuries, a community confronts the damage, and rethinks its way of life.

The ferocious 2021 explosion blew out 2.3 cubic miles of rock, unleashing a 35-mile-high plume and a global tsunami that sent scientists racing to understand the blast. Now they’re finally putting together the pieces.

Human activities have scarred the landscape in ways that could take decades or even centuries to repair, but some have found promise in the destruction.

The centuries-old art of folding paper is yielding new applications in spacecraft, architecture, and even the human body.

Man's best friend can understand both the words we say and the tone in which we say them, new brain scans reveal.