Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

A question I’m often asked is; how much gold is in that rock or in that vein or in that mountain? It is actually a good question with a very complicated answer. There are many questions that are ...

The plan was painstakingly put together and finalised in 1987 by a group of Harvard University landscape architects who visited Bermuda, consulted with the neighbourhoods and publicly displayed ...

In Yellowstone, geology and ecology go hand in hand. In fact, the geology of Yellowstone can be mapped by its vegetation. For example, the glacial clays in the Lamar and Hayden valleys are rich in ...

This week's contribution is from Richard Tollo, emeritus professor of Geology at George Washington University. Yellowstone National Park ranks among the finest classrooms in North America for ...

Palmerston, the former resident cat at the Foreign Office, has been brought out of retirement for a new overseas diplomatic posting nearly 3,500 miles away in Bermuda. A post on Palmerston's X ...

Laura is an editor and staff writer at IFLScience. She obtained her Master's in Experimental Neuroscience from Imperial College London.