(via Be Smart) A giant asteroid impact ended the age of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. How did this mass extinction play out, moment by moment? In this video we meet a geologist who has explored ...

My grandfather was a successful investor and knew his children very well — he placed all his assets in a trust upon his and my grandmother’s deaths, to be divided evenly among his three children with ...

A 150-million-year-old fossil from the Jurassic era turned up at a Montana dig site this year — unearthed not by a scientist but by a Connecticut high school student. Aidan Connor, a senior at ...

A storm that forecasters predict will be a "soupy mess" could create hazardous driving conditions in Northeast Ohio on Thursday night and Friday morning. Wild weather on the way! Temperatures in the ...

Dan is an assistant managing editor at Raw Story based in Colorado, producing and editing breaking political news. Dan previously worked as a news associate at The Associated Press in Philadelphia, ...

A man was arrested by the police for allegedly pushing his 16-year-old niece from a fast Mumbai local train in Vasai, leading to her death, an official said on Tuesday, reported the PTI. The girl’s ...

Paleontologist Riley Black points out in her new book that the story of the dinosaurs is not prehistory, but an elegant premonition of what happens when a form of life believes itself eternal. 66 ...

Jack Knudson is an Associate Editor for Discover Magazine who writes articles on space, ancient humans, animals, and sustainability, and manages the Planet Earth column for print. View Full Profile.