A groundbreaking study at the University of Auckland's Leigh Marine Laboratory reveals that rig sharks produce clicking ...

A new study published in Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders provides initial evidence that a portable and affordable ...

Human movements like hopping and running can be explained using a spring-mass model. In this model, the leg works like a ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

The University of Portsmouth in England and technology company TG0 have created a smart insoles prototype that can accurately ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. Drip-like features imaged in a ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere.

One explanation for plate movements is slab pull. Plates are extremely heavy so gravity acts upon them, pulling them apart. Alternatively, as shown in the diagram, convection currents under the ...