In the 1st century CE, Pliny the Elder wrote that Roman seawalls grew "every day stronger." Turns out he was right.

GEOLOGY
Scientists found a shark tooth and part of a mantis shrimp buried in the Amazon basin. Sediment cores going back 18 million years tell the rest of the story.
The Chicxulub crater is providing new clues about how life may have begun on Earth about 4 billion years ago—and point us towards how and where we can look for life across the universe.
A result of climate change, the chasm has revealed long-lost forests and the preserved remains of prehistoric animals.
The next time you’re feeling less than brave, remind yourself you’re already one of nature’s great success stories.
It's summer. Time to think about the science of the cubes clinking in your drink.
For much of the 20th century, scientists believed that the first settlers of the Americas could only have arrived one way.
There's a celebration for everything.
It was one of the most cataclysmic floods on Earth in the past 10,000 years.
Geology enthusiasts are heartbroken over a seemingly mundane street repair in Hayward, California.
The 100+ mile wide, 12-mile deep impression might have been left by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
In some cases, no one really knows how these things stay up.
El’gygytgyn might sound like the name of Cthulhu's kid brother, but it's actually an impact crater on the Chukotka peninsula in Russia.
Recent radioactive dating shaves several million years off their evolution timeline.