Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

March is women’s history month and we want to honor some ... Dawson is the first African-American woman to dive on all 7 continents. She did it in five months and 22 days.

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. See the rise and fall of ...

From village to cotton field, from mill to market, the story of how one fabric came to symbolise the struggle of a continent and it's people.

It’s an exhaustive, continent by continent update showcasing what’s hot and what’s not right across the world, with every recommendation carefully chosen by our team of expert writers and ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on ...