The continent of North America is not a single, thick, rigid slab, but is instead more similar to a layer cake, with a section of 3-billion-year-old rock sitting atop much newer material, a new study ...

Ray Suarez talks with author Anthony DePalma about his new book "Here: A Biography of the New American Continent," about the North American neighbors of the United States. Well, there's no biography ...

Around a billion years ago, a geological event occurred in North America that could have completely changed the continent as people know it. This event could have split the North American continent in ...

Scientists have compiled the most comprehensive map yet of tectonic stress magnitudes across North America, highlighting regions most vulnerable to earthquakes. The map and associated study, published ...

Writing in Nature, Ardelean et al. 1 and Becerra-Valdivia and Higham 2 report evidence that the initial human settlement of the American continent happened earlier than is widely accepted, and some of ...