The poor returns from many master’s degrees should worry applicants. But they also raise thorny questions for governments.

Earth’s magnetic north is not static. Like an anchorless buoy pushed by ocean waves, the magnetic field is constantly on the move as liquid iron sloshes around in the planet’s outer core.

India observes Sankranti as a mid-winter harvest festival. Celebrated with kites in Gujarat, prayers in the north and Pongal ...

Dave Lovelace, the research scientist at UW-Madison's Geology Museum, and his team of paleontologists discovered North ...

A polar vortex dipping down from Siberia will bring a cold front with frigid temperatures to nearly 300 million Americans.

A potent shot of Arctic air starts settling in Monday as a massive dip in the jet stream pulls in frigid air across the ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

Snow isn't just for the mountains, the northern U.S., Europe and Siberia. Here's a sampling of the more bizarre events.

A six-planet alignment or parade will form an arc in the early night sky, peaking in it's visibility Jan. 17-18. We let you ...

Ice core analysis from Greenland reveals volcanic upheaval that coincides with the creation of mysterious "sunstones" in ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...

So, as the Deep South grapples with the foreign language of snowflake icons making a (for some, repeat) appearance in weather apps, a reality check is in order.