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Kellie Ziehm opened Crystals by Kellie in Monroe after years of collecting and sourcing crystals. The shop offers a variety ...

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

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

In a surprising twist of nature, certain fig trees in Kenya are doing more than just bearing fruit—they’re capturing carbon ...

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

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

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

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new ...

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, ...

Here's what kidney stones are, what causes them and how you can expect to have them treated if they affect you or someone you ...