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 ...

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 ...

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.

Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on ...

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

Calcite, quartz, and pyrite are just a few of the beautiful minerals that can be found in Jackson County. These examples take a long time to form, sometimes tens or ...