A newly released second edition of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Lab Exercises offers undergraduate students hands-on experience with authentic oceanographic data. Developed by ...

What do the surfaces of rocky exoplanets look like? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

After a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck of the coast of Japan and set off tsunami warnings, there’s an elevated risk of a “megaquake” following in its wake ...

Geology-focused open educational resources, such as those compiled by the ASCCC OERI, provide instructors with no-cost, openly licensed textbooks, digital courseware, and lab materials that align with ...

Satellite data has unveiled a captivating geological phenomenon demonstrating that Earth’s crust is "dripping" under the ...

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Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years ...

The transition to plate tectonics started with the help of lubricating sediments, scraped by glaciers from the slopes of Earth's first continents, according to new research. Earth's outer layer is ...

The southern Appalachians hold an estimated 1.43 million metric tons of lithium oxide, concentrated in the Carolinas, and the ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

At local elections councils can end up in no overall control (NOC) where no one party gets enough seats to declare themselves ...

Massachusetts drivers are reviving a piece of the state’s visual past, and doing it with surprising enthusiasm. The RMV’s “MA250” license plates, introduced to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the ...