A 220,000-year-old ‘stone workshop’ found in South Africa is changing what we know about early humans

New research has revealed that the early humans quarried metamorphic rock as far back as 220,000 years ago. A revolutionary ...

The billion-year gap: Why the Grand Canyon is hiding a massive chapter of Earth’s missing history

The Grand Canyon reveals a significant geological gap, the Great Unconformity, representing 1.3 billion years of missing ...
Family Destinations Guide

There’s A Garden In Michigan That Looks Like It Belongs On Mars

Sometimes the most extraordinary places are hiding in the most ordinary spots, and The Boulder Garden in Southfield proves ...
Science News

The crust under Africa is thinning in a way that hasn’t been seen before

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...
Scientific American

Deep-Earth diamonds reveal trove of never-before-seen minerals

Called bernwoodite, it’s one of two new minerals Korolev and his adviser at the AMNH, Kate Kiseeva, and their colleagues ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Kevin Clark, drummer in ‘School of Rock,’ hit and killed by driver while biking in Avondale

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