Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we can't verify them. How will we know if they're right?

John Smol, more than four decades into his career, has earned yet another major accomplishment as he was awarded the prize on ...

Everyone has a few ideas about how humanity will end, but one of the brightest minds of the modern era had some thoughts on ...

An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back ...

The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections ...

Jay Cowan still worries about the Rulison blast’s proximity to the Colorado River and expresses disbelief at the 107 days that radioactive gas was burned in order to test whether the radionuclides ...

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On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Ashesh Chattopadhyay will build AI models to project extreme Earth-system events.

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...