Bjarni was travelling to Greenland to meet up with his father, and was so determined to do so that he refused to land on the ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on North America, a continent found entirely within the northern hemisphere. In these clips, we explore iconic landmarks within the United ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away ... waveform seismic tomographic model for North America using an approach developed by co-author ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in ...

but their presence appears to be impacting the entire continent. The dripping area looks like a large funnel, with rocks from across North America being pulled toward it horizontally before ...