When you visit Hawaii, you’re bound to meet people living there who grew up on the mainland. And many of them will tell you the same story: They simply came five, ten, 25 years ago — and never left.

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling “lukewarm interglacials.” The air over Antarctica was chilly during these ...

OCEAN SHORES, Wash. — Ocean Shores on the Washington coast is known for kite-flying, clam digging and souvenir stores that evoke "Jaws." "That's, you know, definitely a part of the Ocean Shores story.

Answers to important questions about the formation of the Earth's crust may be close at hand as a result of recent findings by an international team of scientists. The researchers have, for the first ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of the ocean’s squishiest creatures—including one jelly that might be the oldest animal species on Earth. A pair of sea butterflies (Corolla spectabilis) drift ...

Mysterious white halos emerging around sunken barrels of chemical waste on the seafloor off California's coast have been found to contain traces of an alkaline substance, providing a tantalizing clue ...