Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...
Historical introduction -- The nature of the drift theory and its relationship to hitherto prevalent accounts of changes in the earth's surface configuration in geological times -- Geodetic arguments ...
Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under the Pacific Ocean. The blobs have their roots 2,900 kilometers below the surface, almost halfway ...
Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting ...
Visualisation of seismic model S40RTS (Ritsema et al., 2011), showing the LLVP (large red area) under Africa, made using the GPlates software. Credit: Jeroen Ritsema et al. A new study led by ...
Is this visitor to Antarctica going crazy or having a good time? Tim Bieber/Photodisc via Getty Images As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the year – those ...