Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. What was the very first plant in the world? – ...

The Barbie star is back, and this time his job is space.

“As a professional science communicator who works a lot with space at this age group, I am disappointed," said Dr. Mark Gallaway.

When the Stanford biologist and science writer Paul Ehrlich died last week at 93, the obituaries that followed were a fascinating exercise in editorial balance. As usual, most hesitated to speak too ...

No one has ever made a 'perfect' March Madness bracket correctly predicting 63 team match-ups in a row. What are the odds of making one this year?

There's not enough therapy in the world for the Old Dominion University ROTC students who were forced to kill a school ...

Star Wars had been released in theaters and changed everything about the way Hollywood perceived the genre, and television executives wanted in on that cash-grab just as much as movie executives. In ...

Former Summer House love interests West Wilson and Ciara Miller attempt to reconcile their romance only to have things go ...

The rocks glow in shades of red and orange that seem too saturated to be real, like someone adjusted the color settings on ...

Deep in the woods of North Chagrin Reservation stands a mysterious stone castle. Squire’s Castle looks like it belongs in a European fairy tale, not suburban Ohio. The Gothic Revival structure rises ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...