The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among ...

ABUJA — The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has raised the alarm over what it described as a clandestine plot by unscrupulous agencies and political hirelings to infiltrate and violently disrupt its ...

Mountain building occurred all around the Yellowstone region and highlights a tortured geological history of uplift and volcanism. The Gallatin Range, just northeast of Yellowstone Caldera, is an ...

Millions of people around the world know of the Grand Canyon and many Arizonans have visited it — but few comprehend the incredible complexity and age of the rocks that form this vast gash in the ...

A close-up look at chocolate-based desserts featuring smooth finishes and bright layered interiors. From a strawberry-filled chocolate cake to a rainbow dessert with chocolate glaze, the video ...

The U.S. successfully claimed another one million square kilometers beneath the ocean, expanding its extended continental ...

Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

The cortex refers to the outermost layer of the cerebral hemispheres or cerebrum. The cerebral cortex in humans is folded into gyri and consists of six horizontal layers of neurons, with distinct ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ...

In spite of its stereotypic laminar and columnar organization, the cerebral neocortex displays numerous species-specific adaptations of old and acquired new traits that subserve specific functions ...