On a fateful day 210 million years ago, two crocodile cousins about the size of jackals stood side-by-side amid the low ferns of a humid riverbank that would one day become northern New Mexico. One of the crocs, Hesperosuchus agilis, had a long snout, large b…

A new study reveals that volcanoes can remain dangerously active beneath the surface even after tens of thousands of years of silence.

A natural sugar may stimulate hair regrowth by boosting blood flow to follicles, early research in mice shows, offering a potential new treatment path.

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The optimal propulsion of a payload to space is without fuel. Our current space rockets rely on carrying the fuel along with the payload…

Yellowstone eruptions may be driven by shifts in Earth's crust, rather than a deep well of magma, study finds.