The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of ...

Alfred Wegener , in Greenland, c ... Continental drift and the more recent science of plate tectonics are now ... an audience member thanked the speaker for having blown Wegener’s theory to bits ...

Through the power of a process known as plate tectonics, the crust of the Earth is constantly in flux, with the continents wandering around it over time. At certain times in Earth’s history ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

The study of these plate movements came to be known as plate tectonics. The theory encapsulates both Alfred Wegener's ideas about continental drift and Harry Hess' discoveries about seafloor spreading ...

The study of these plate movements came to be known as plate tectonics. The theory encapsulates both Alfred Wegener's ideas about continental drift and Harry Hess' discoveries about seafloor ...

As an undergrad at MIT in the 1950s, Lynn Sykes ’59, SM ’60, became interested in the theory of continental ... continental drift—now known as plate tectonics—was indeed occurring.

The Pangea plating system. [Image courtesy of Stryker] Stryker (NYSE: SYK) + announced today that it launched its Pangea plating system portfolio of devices. Pangea provides a comprehensive ...

Alfred Wegener, and was eventually proven true in the 1960s when new technology could demonstrate it. The theory of plate tectonics basically posits that Earth’s outer layer, its crust (or ...

Millions of years ago, the supercontinent of Pangea slowly started to break apart into the continents we all live on today. In this video from the makers of ArcGIS mapping software, you can watch as ...