Life on the windswept plains of what is now central Ukraine offered little mercy around 18,000 years ago. Trees were scarce.

Do we have a new NFL player and celebrity couple in the world? There are lots of rumors about this one: Cooper DeJean -- who is, as the parody song says, not a Philadelphia Eagles safety -- might be ...

Earth’s inner core shows seismic anisotropy, with waves 3–4% faster along the rotation axis than at the equator, increasing with depth. Sotomayor warns of major power shift NASCAR’s Greg Biffle and ...

Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from earthquakes travel about 3 to 4 percent faster along the planet’s rotation axis ...

Our culture is youth-obsessed, but while straight men think you have to be young to be hot, lesbians and sapphics are less likely to have this hang up. What queer women know that others fail to ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...