Exactly 100 years ago Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift to the public for the first time. Modern plate tectonics confirmed his ideas by flipping them upside down. Exactly 100 ...

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 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American March 1929 the German meteorologists Alfred ...

Exactly 100 years ago, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift – the idea that the continents of Earth are gradually drifting apart. And now we have some ...

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 ...

Die Skier standen bei Kilometer 189 senkrecht in den Schnee gepflanzt. Beim Graben stieß der Suchtrupp auf ihren Besitzer: ...

This animated documentary tells the story of polar explorer Alfred Wegener, the unlikely scientist behind continental drift theory. Just as biology tells us about the origin of life, geology tells how ...

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 ...