Scientists are surveying "mass wasting," a unique geological phenomenon of the Red Sea, to identify active fault-line activity along fossil coral reefs and sediment levels. They say that their ...

At the Macmillan Dictionary blog, the ever-thoughtful Stan Carey has a post on fault-finding in language, in which he explains how the impulse to correct errors may “target the wrong people.” ...

When a flaw or a mistake is made about something or someone, what happens next is quite interesting and important to understand. First, one might admit the truth of a blunder. Then, if possible, begin ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. Within minutes of any major ...

New modeling and analyses of fault geometry in the Earth's crust by geoscientist are advancing knowledge about fault development in regions where one geologic plate slides past or over another, such ...

Survey wind turbine manufacturers about how to calculate wind farm availability and you will get countless different definitions and exceptions to the rule. “There is a discrepancy between the ways ...

Scientists and the oil and gas industry have known about induced seismicity, or induced earthquakes, since the 1960s. One early and telling example was the disposal of warfare chemical waste in a deep ...

How often have you looked for a problem in the wrong place only to find that it originates somewhere that you’d never have thought of in the first place? I’ve been reading a few of Sir Arthur Conan ...

In the wake of the devastating loss of life in Japan, the urgent question is where the next big earthquake will hit. To answer it, geologist Prof. Zvi Ben-Avraham and his doctoral student Gal Hartman ...