Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Sometimes Mars feels like the setting for a Dr. Seuss book, full of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Great Lakes Science Center is just a guitar pick’s throw away from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Given the proximity of the venues, in the city known as the ...

What field of science could be more solid than geology? Rocks are visible, tangible. You can bang on them with a hammer, drill them, compress them, zap them with X-rays, ultraviolet light and radar, ...

Why did everything in the teeming oceans of the Late Devonian period (which ended about 358 million years ago) go extinct? Did Earth’s entire surface cool into a “snowball” at some point in prehistory ...

Participating in a school science fair is a rite of passage for local students, and those students have a valuable resource at their disposal. The Terrebonne Parish Main Library will host its sixth ...

Sitting around fires and camps after a day of climbing, people would inevitably ask Sarah Garlick science questions. She's a geologist, which proved useful to a crowd that spends all its time pressed ...

Experts have revealed details of the mysterious 8,000-year-old rock carvings found in the world’s largest asteroid crater. The petroglyphs were found in the Vredefort impact structure, a 186-mile wide ...

Using a common household item, you can determine what type of rocks are in your backyard. Materials If bubbles appear when placing the vinegar on the rock, the rock contains a large amount of calcium.