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Her Majesty's Ship Challenger set sail in 1872. Stripped of her guns and outfitted for science , her mission was to sail around the globe sampling as she went.

“ No such hypothesis is sufficient to explain either the cataclysms or the glacial phenomena; and we need not hesitate to confess our ignorance of this strange, this mysterious, episode in the history of the globe…. ” BRISTOW, H.G. (1872): The world before the deluge by Louis Figuier – Newly edited and revised by H.W

DURBAN, South Africa--The roughly 3,000 fossil fuel–fired power plants in North America--Canada, Mexico and the U.S.--emit 6 percent of global greenhouse gases , or nearly as much as all of the European Union. In fact, coal-fired power plants around the globe are the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. [More]

Scientists will soon be exploring matter at temperatures and pressures so extreme it can only be produced for microseconds using powerful pulsed lasers. Matter in such states is present in the Earth's liquid iron core, 2500 kilometres beneath the surface, and also in elusive "warm dense matter" inside large planets like Jupiter

It’s that time of year in the U.S. when clocks “fall back” from Daylight Saving Time to standard time. What does that mean?

In the classic book series, Little House on the Prairie , Pa's wanderlust repeatedly drives the Ingalls family westward past the edges of civilization.

Thursday, November 3 One-fifth of young Americans donate time to a cause. | Photo by Patrick T. Fallon/Zuma Press At any given moment , young volunteers across the globe are building schools and feeding the hungry--efforts that will be celebrated at this Barranquilla, Colombia, gathering

Citizen scientists map the location of graveyards around the globe as well as the impact of air pollution on marble gravestones [More]

(PhysOrg.com) -- A problem plaguing physicists across the globe for centuries has finally made a leap towards resolution.

Young people across the globe are having more unprotected sex and know less about effective contraception options, a multinational survey revealed on Monday.

Around the globe, American designers have never been more influential.

Hundreds gathered in Germany's capital of Berlin as part of an unorthodox movement that's been sweeping the globe.