Catching Mantle Plumes by Their Magma Tails
Hawaii's volcanoes stand as silent sentinels. They guard the secret of how they formed, thousands of miles away f…
April 2018
Fossil Footprints Show Evidence Of Humans Hunting Giant Sloths
The languid, slow-moving sloth we know today is the inspiration behind a thousand memes, but in ancient times, giant me…
World's Tallest Active Geyser Erupts in Yellowstone National Park for the 3rd Time
Although infrequent, the eruption of Steamboat Geyser in Yellowstone National Park's Norris Geyser Basin can send hot…
Mysterious Arctic Ice Holes Baffle Scientists
This NASA image shows unexplained holes in the surface of some ice in the Beaufort Sea. It's never super comfortin…
Soil Metals Linked With Cancer Mortality
Heavy Metal Toxicity Causes Cancer Spanish epidemiologists and geologists have found associations between esophagea…
What Is Druzy, and How Does It Form?
The word druse (Also Known as Drusy or Druzy), refers to an aggregate mass of small crystals (“crystal druse”). These crysta…
The Mysterious Living Stones of Romania: They Grow and Move
Known in Romania as “Trovants” the stones of Costesti, Romania are a type of sandstone concretion that secrete cement and …
Measuring Devices for the World's Most Extreme Environment
Norwegian research scientists are contributing to the development of the world's hottest geothermal well in a …
Study: East Bay Fault Is 'Tectonic Time Bomb,' More Dangerous Than San Andreas
Everyone knows that California’s San Andreas fault is a ticking time bomb ready to erupt – but a new study shows that …
Study Provides New Insights into How Carbon Dioxide Can Be Trapped in Basalt
Study Provides New Insights into How Carbon Dioxide Can Be Trapped in Basalt Columnar-jointing in the High Island Formation …
Researchers Find Vast Reserve of Rare Earth Minerals
Yttrium, sublimed-dendritic, high purity 99.99 % Y/TREM. Japanese researchers have mapped vast reserves of rare earth…
New Type of 'Opal' Formed by Common Seaweed
The gemstone opal is beloved for its scintillating array of colours. Now the nanostructures that make those dazzling c…
Diamonds Buried Within Rare Meteorites Reveal Existence of "Lost Planet"
A different urelite meteorite, NWA 4231. Diamonds found in a meteorite that exploded over the Nubian desert in Sudan …
Scientists Discover Clues to Recovery From Mass Extinction
Photo: Luke Waltham About 252 million years ago, more than 90 percent of all animal life on Earth went extinct. T…
4 Rare Rubies Found in North Carolina Could Fetch $90 Million
The Mountain Star Ruby collection Courtesy of Guernsey's auction house Rubies are already rarer than diamonds. B…
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