Ian Randall

Typically weighing some 25 times more than the average car and needing about 30 percent more stopping distance, trucks present a particular hazard on the road.

An unusual earthquake beneath New Jersey back in April this year is shaking up our understanding of seismic hazards in the New York tristate area.

Paleontologists working in Patagonia have unearthed the oldest-known fossil of a tadpole—and it was a whopper, measuring in at more than six inches long, the size of an adult human hand.

"It destroys creativity when we have rules that supposedly can't be overcome," the California-based researchers said.

The discovery of 165-million-year-old crystals Easter Island has upended the longheld notion of how the Earth's "conveyor belt" moves

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told Newsweek.

Albert Einstein 's theory of general relativity —which explains gravity as the product of the distortion of space and time—may not be universally applicable.

The Grand Canyon may rewrite the textbooks on the Cambrian Explosion —a key turning point in Earth's history when there was a sudden boom in complex life and the emergence of all the major animal groups seen alive today.

The discovery could pave the way to starving antibioitc-resistant bacteria without new drugs or harmful chemicals.

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said. Read Full Article »