When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati. My grandfather joked that if I kept digging, I would end up in China. In fact, if I had been able to dig straight through the ...

Laser beams powered by the sun are one small step closer to becoming a reality after researchers received funding to develop ...

(Credit: Volcan26/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA) The Earth is made up of layers. The lithosphere is the solid, outer part of the planet, including the brittle upper portion of the mantle and the crust. When ...

Boise State University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in Cincinnati. My grandfather joked that if I kept digging, I ...

EU researchers are braving extreme Arctic conditions to shed light on snow's crucial role in Earth's climate system.

Microsoft Flight Simulator head Jorg Neumann discusses the future of the game's high-fidelity streaming simulation of our planet.

Methanol-to-energy conversion in support of renewable energies is studied: efficiency, costs and environmental impact.

Place 2 tablespoons butter in an 11- to 12-inch baking dish or skillet and put the dish in the oven until the butter is ...

The Absolute Universe is defined by struggle. Every day is a grind for the people of Earth especially, and there are no ...

When it comes to mice, the freeze-dried mouse sperm Wakayama is currently storing aboard the ISS will return to Earth in 2025 ...

Suppose you were to try digging through the earth, and that the planet was all solid. (We know that it’s not, but this is the simplest scenario.) The depth of a hole all the way through the ...

By the 1950s one could hire a cleaner, most of them Yemeni, by driving through an illegal housemaids’ fair in Tel Aviv. At ...