Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. A dainty ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle - penetrating 4,160 feet (1,268 meters) below the Atlantic seabed - and ...

An international team of scientists have drilled nearly two miles down into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting an ice core sample that’s estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old, they announced ...

Core samples taken in the African Rift Valley could help to clarify how past climate change is connected to human history and evolution. An international collaboration of researchers led by several UA ...