At more than 470 times the atmospheric concentration of CO₂, a humble soil bacterium does something extraordinary: it turns ...

Space ice” contains tiny crystals and is not, as previously assumed, a completely disordered material like liquid water, ...

This time, it has come through an unintentional clash between the Curiosity Rover and a Martian rock in the Gediz Vallis ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

In the growing fine minerals market, such crystalline gold specimens often sell for far more than the value of the gold by weight (the gold in the Dragon is estimated to weigh around seven ounces, ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

aeolian (wind transported) soils. Read more about soil erosion. Time Soil properties may vary depending on how long the soil has been weathered. Minerals from rocks are further weathered to form ...

S cientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe. The actual findings ...

In the far, northwestern corner of Oklahoma's Panhandle, you can find Black Mesa State Park and Black Mesa Nature Preserve.

The research team has identified atacamite as a material with magnetocaloric properties. Natural crystals have long ...

Places such as Purgatory Chasm and Millstone Hill, in Worcester's Green Hill Park, bear witness to the work of the glaciers.