Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, ...

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As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.