The scientific research ship JOIDES Resolution on an expedition to the southwest Indian Ocean in 2015. Xinhua/Zhang Jiansong via Getty Images My favorite place in the world isn’t a fixed location.

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Before dawn on a windy day, two dozen climate scientists shiver on the top deck of a research ship, watching as tugboats pull them ...

Geoscientists have made an unprecedented achievement on their 60-year quest to know more about Earth's mysterious depths. Pieces of Earth’s rocky mantle were collected by a drilling vessel called the ...

The “Joides Resolution” research vessel – here in the port of Lisbon – has been used since 1985 as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program for scientific drilling. The drill cores used in ...

While most of the United States spent the summer in the grips of intense heat waves, University of Delaware doctoral student Aruggoda Kapuge Isuri Umejya Kapuge was about as far away from the heat as ...