Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880, where his father was a minister who ran an orphanage. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though ...

Six seismologists and a civil servant, charged with manslaughter for failing to predict a 2009 earthquake that killed 308 people in the Apennine Mountain city of L’Aquila, in Italy, will serve six ...

1. The boy : Berlin and Brandenburg, 1880-1899 -- 2. The student : Berlin-Heidelberg-Innsbruck-Berlin, 1899-1901 -- 3. The astronomer : Berlin, 1901-1904 -- 4. The ...

(via TEDEd) In the early 20th century, Alfred Wegener's theory of Continental Drift laid the foundation for our modern theory of plate tectonics. And today we know something even more exciting: Pangea ...