India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya, the highest mountain system on Earth. As the mash-up continues, the mountains get higher. Mount Everest ...

But "this is just a mountain that looks like a pyramid," Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine and senior research scientist at NASA's Jet ...

Faculty at the Talcott Mountain Science Center & Academy have seen how the learning process is accelerated by encouraging curiosity, questioning the status quo in scientific exploration ...