Winners of the annual prize get their mortgage or rent paid for an entire year, and their school gets a $2,500 donation. Runners-up don't go empty handed, either.

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.

Oregon discovered a $1.5 trillion lithium deposit. Liquid gold is essential for electric vehicles, which means Elon Musk ...

Elon Musk's Tesla could be set to be benefit massively after a lithium deposit suspected of being the world's largest has ...

A new study by geoscientists at Virginia Tech, published in ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’, estimates a 15 ...

Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk if an earthquake erupts along the Cascadia subduction zone within the next 50 years.

Fortunately for residents of California, Oregon and Washington, Axial Seamount doesn't erupt explosively, so it poses zero ...

Experts warn of a potential mega-tsunami threatening Northern California, Oregon, and Washington. This catastrophic wave ...

The Axial Seamount, located 300 miles off Oregon's coast, shows signs of eruption. Experts assure it won't affect land or ...

A mysterious and highly active undersea volcano off the Pacific Coast could erupt by the end of this year -- nearly a mile deep and about 700 miles northwest of San Francisco, California, the Los ...