This isn’t a U.S.-China clash in the Taiwan Strait, but Athens’ 415 BC Sicilian Expedition–a misstep that doomed it to ...

The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked the quake not to destroy his house: Earthquake, most dread of all shocks … ...

Around 200 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the land, Earth’s oceans went through a series of sudden and damaging die-offs. Many marine species, including shell-bearing animals, reef ...

A small earthquake rattled upstate New York on an ancient fault that occasionally reawakens, producing a brief but noticeable tremor in the region. The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected a magnitude ...

One of the world’s oldest surviving collections of writing, scratched into ‘oracle bones’ by Shang dynasty chroniclers more than three millennia ago, is finally giving up its secrets. Using a powerful ...

Shang Dynasty oracle bones and modern weather models feature in the same study. Some of those dates make me think of the Late Bronze Age collapse, I wonder if there is a connection to be explored ...