Today, rock and rap can be thought of as quite different. When someone begins to describe what kind of music they like, they’ll say, “I like rock, rap…” Hardly ever are they considered siblings, or ...

Rocks are forced to change shape at or near plate boundaries. Rocks can experience squeezing, stretching, or pushing in different directions in response to stress. This response depends on the type of ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

Rocks and minerals are closely related, but there are fundamental differences between the two. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Carl Lipo receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society’s enduring impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability Program. Conventional wisdom holds that the island ...

When your favorite rock band blows up, it’s either a delight or a bit of a disappointment. On one hand, that band will have resources to make more music with their newfound fame. On the other hand, ...

When you're zooming down the highway, seeing billboards, strip malls, and gas stations whipping by, it can be hard to imagine ...

Prehistoric engravings of giant snakes along South America’s Orinoco river are among the largest examples of rock art we know of anywhere in the world, with some stretching for more than 40 metres.

Handful of lava pebbles thrown into the air. A new study shows how strong shaking at a fault has rocks—briefly—defying gravity. When Julian Lozos, a seismologist at California State University, ...