Foucault’s pendulum experiment led to an increase in the public’s interest in both real-life science and science fiction.

Our planet may have had a recent change of heart. Earth’s inner core may have temporarily stopped rotating relative to the mantle and surface, researchers report in the January 23 Nature Geoscience.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A Pew Research poll reveals partisan division over U.S. scientific leadership, with Democrats far more concerned ...

Two new proposed NASA Earth science missions will attempt to address key research topics while leveraging both commercial and exploration capabilities. During NASA’s “Ignition” event March 24, the ...

Alexander Kefalopoulos, a junior student from Canyon Crest Academy, has been selected for the prestigious NASA STEM ...

The March 9 event at Rayback Collective in Boulder, open to all, invites scientists and non-scientists to gather for discussions of climate research It started, as good things often do, with CAKE. In ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

Science has an image problem. Many people think of it as a collection of unchanging facts carved in stone by lab coat-wearing authorities. But the reality is far more fascinating. Science isn’t about ...

The arid hills of Western Australia’s Pilbara region contain the earliest evidence yet of tectonic plates sliding across Earth’s surface. Tiny magnetic crystals locked in the bedrock recorded the ...

Most people carry a fairly comfortable picture of the planet they live on: solid ground underfoot, north is north, and everything more or less stays in its place. That picture, it turns out, is ...

April brings us Citizen Science Month and Earth Day—that means it’s the perfect time to get outside, explore nature, and even help real scientists with their research! You don’t need to be an expert, ...

Beginning August 2026, the Department of Geological Sciences at CU Boulder will become the Department of Earth Science—a name change that reflects the breadth, depth and forward-looking spirit of our ...