Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, my colleagues and I have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years. It is the first time Earth’s ...

Earth’s crust is a jigsaw of pieces that float atop the roiling liquids churning within the mantle. When these pieces, a.k.a. tectonic plates, move, their dance provokes continents to move farther or ...

Modern life can feel dizzying, like everything is motion and change. But there are some constants we set our lives against: the relative position of the stars wheeling above, the mountaintops below, ...