With their election to the prestigious honor society, eight members of the Brown University faculty join the nation’s leading ...

A new geological study has revealed that the Indian Plate, long believed to slide smoothly beneath the Tibetan Plateau, is actually tearing and warpi ...

Here, the Indian Plate is breaking into layers. The crust is peeling away from the mantle, and a soft, hot rock layer from inside the Earth, called the asthenosphere, is pushing in between. This ...