Mineral Previously Known Only in Meteorites Discovered at Dead Sea Allabogdanite was first reported in the early 2000s from the Onello—a s...
“Invisible” Gold – Fool’s Gold Actually Contains Real Gold
Pyrite, Casapalca Mine, Huarochiri Province, Lima, Peru Photo: Mineralauctions Curtin University research has found tiny amounts of gold c...
Ancient Fungal Parasite of Ants Found Preserved in Baltic Amber
About 50 million years ago, this ant got stuck in tree resin that also preserved the parasitic fungus that was giving it a hard time. George...
Siberian Volcanic Eruptions Triggered End-Permian Mass Extinction
Fossilized crinoids, marine invertebrates that lived during the Permian Period, found in western Australia. Credit...John Cancalosi, via Get...
Earth Has a 27.5-Million-Year 'Heartbeat', But We Don't Know What Causes It
In the last 260 million years, dinosaurs came and went, Pangea split into the continents and islands we see today, and humans have quickly...
The Dynamic, Geological Process Happening in Your Kidney
kidney stones Over a period of three months to three years, compounds like calcium, uric acid and bits of organic matter coalesce into the...
World’s Third Largest Diamond Discovered in Botswana
Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, inspects Debswana’s find. Photograph: Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP/Getty Images A 1,098-carat diamond, bel...
More Than 600 Earthquakes Hit Area Along San Andreas Fault Since Saturday
A rural area of Southern California near the Mexico border and along the San Andreas fault line saw more than 600 earthquakes in a 24-hour...
Earth's Inner Core Is Growing More on One Side Than the Other
The researchers concluded that this difference in seismic wave speed with direction results from a preferred alignment of the crystals — he...
99-Million-Year-Old Snail Fossilized in Amber While Giving Birth
The mother snail and her young, marked with numbers. Image Credit: Tingting Yu A snail that lived alongside the dinosaurs has been found,...
Tiny Worm Comes Back to Life After 24,000 Years in Siberian Deep Freeze
Bdelloid rotifers are solely female and procreate by cloning themselves. Photograph: Michael Plewka/AFP/Getty Image A microscopic worm-lik...
Scientists Solve Mystery of How World’s ‘Stone Forests’ Formed
Scientists Finally Discover How 'Stone Forests' Develop Their Otherworldly Forms Scientists have confirmed that mysterious stone f...
What Causes the Deep Earth's Most Mysterious Earthquakes?
Credit: Steven Shirey, Peter van Keken, Lara Wagner, and Michael Walter/Carnegie Institution for Science. The cause of Earth's deepest...
Man Hunts for Engagement Ring Gemstone, Digs Up 2.2-carat Diamond
Christian Liden's Washington Sunshine Diamond A Washington man made a wonderful discovery while he was mining materials for an engageme...