Understanding whether lakes are fed predominantly by groundwater or rainwater is critical to managing our water resources in ...

Specifically, they affect the proportions of different atomic variants of oxygen (the isotopes oxygen-18 and oxygen-16).

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Understanding whether lakes are fed predominantly by groundwater or rainwater is critical to managing our water resources in the face of droughts and ...

Teeth can tell a life’s story, even when they’re 150 million years old. One of the new frontiers in paleontological research ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

TEHRAN - A study by an international team has revealed that pre-agricultural communities at the Early Neolithic site of Asiab ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Ancient limestones reveal how volcanic carbon once suffocated the oceans - offering a stark warning as modern oxygen levels ...

In a quiet corner of eastern China, nestled between the Tai-Yi Mountains and the Bohai Sea, a discovery has upended ...

Demand for the ornaments, jewelry, and other luxury items carved from the ivory in elephant tusks has led poachers to ...

Researchers have measured oxygen isotopes in other archaeological remains and in water all over North America, giving us a water “isotope map.” But matching the bone isotope values to the water map is ...