Although the thing that sticks in most people’s memories about Richard Powers’ 2018 novel The Overstory is the trees, the ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

aims to unravel the mysteries of Venus and investigate whether Earth's scorching neighbour once harbored oceans and continents. The mission, consisting of a flyby spacecraft and a descent probe, will ...

Imagine if all the oceans suddenly vanished—could you just walk to other continents? Well, without water, you’d see giant ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

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With plans to expand ocean protection under the UN-endorsed biodiversity plan’s “30x30” target (which aims to protect 30% of the world’s land and oceans by 2030), it’s important to know ...

If you went to school in the US or the UK, you probably learned that there are seven continents. But that number really depends on where you grew up. Elsewhere, you probably learned that there are ...

The first image here is not a bowl of spaghetti, though it may perhaps look like one. They are not ramen noodles nor elbow macaroni either. If one looks closely, the east coast of North America is ...

Did you stay in the loop with this week’s local news? Take our Boston.com news quiz to test your knowledge and stay informed on the latest trending stories in Greater Boston. Peter Chianca ...

Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence. The shift announced Thursday will bring more of the revolutionary AI technology that Google already has been baking into ...