On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

Experts from UNH explain how rare the 3.8 magnitude earthquake was and the likelihood of significant aftershocks.

Multiple major US cities could be mostly underwater in just 75 years, a startling new study predicts. The researchers ...

Multiple major US cities could be mostly underwater in just 75 years, a startling new study predicts. The researchers ...

Recently, I purchased a set of plates that looked like they were from the '70s, and I use them nearly every night. One evening while admiring the design, I began to wonder what year, exactly ...

I’ve been testing the best carbon plate running shoes ever since the original Nike Vaporfly 4% launched. I’ve tried almost every super-shoe released since then by a major brand and know as ...

According to new findings shared at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, data shows that a collision between two major tectonic plates may be having some unforeseen consequences ...

A subset of these planetesimals then accreted to form the Earth, which, over several hundred million years, formed a crust consisting of mobile tectonic plates that hosted the first biosphere. Dr. Fu ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Some Texans have dirty minds when it comes to custom license plates. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles compiled a list of rejected custom license plate submissions from 2024, with ...

A couple who have proudly displayed their love for their favourite football team through a personalised number plate for nearly three decades have been left stunned after the DVLA withdrew it due ...

Sitting on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific “Ring of Fire", Japan is one of the world’s most tectonically active countries. The archipelago, home to around 125 ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...