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World's Largest Sapphire Cluster 'Accidentally' Found in a Backyard in Sri Lanka

World's Largest Sapphire Cluster 'Accidentally' Found in a Backyard in Sri Lanka

(Image Credits: Shutterstock) Pale blue stone, named 'Serendipity Sapphire' weighs 510kg or 2.5million carats A st…

Geologists Take Earth's Inner Temperature Using Erupted Sea Glass

Geologists Take Earth's Inner Temperature Using Erupted Sea Glass

A map of the World Ocean Floor. Credit: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division If the Earth’s oceans were drained…

Continuous Activity of Small Earthquakes Makes Mountains Grow

Continuous Activity of Small Earthquakes Makes Mountains Grow

In the time between mega-earthquakes, smaller earthquakes continuously occur between oceanic and continental plates (backgro…

Rock Crystals From the Deep Give Microscopic Clues to Earthquake Ground Movements

Rock Crystals From the Deep Give Microscopic Clues to Earthquake Ground Movements

Chunks of exotic green rocks from the mantle erupted from the San Carlos Volcanic Field, Arizona. Credit: James St John Mi…

Watermelon Tourmaline: What Is Watermelon Tourmaline?

Watermelon Tourmaline: What Is Watermelon Tourmaline?

Watermelon tourmaline is a variety of concentrically color-zoned tourmaline with red interiors and green exteriors and is di…

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Identified in Melting Tibetan Glaciers

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Identified in Melting Tibetan Glaciers

Bacteriophages on a bacterium. (Graham Beards/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) Scientists who study glacier ice have found …

Rare Diamonds Show Life-Giving Elements Present on Earth Soon After It Formed

Rare Diamonds Show Life-Giving Elements Present on Earth Soon After It Formed

One of the 2.7 billion year-old diamonds used in this work. Credit: Michael Broadley Earth's atmosphere was primed for…

“Invisible” Gold – Fool’s Gold Actually Contains Real Gold

“Invisible” Gold – Fool’s Gold Actually Contains Real Gold

“Invisible” Gold – Fool’s Gold Actually Contains Real Gold. Pyrite with Quartz - Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de M…

World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Created Rare, Otherworldly Crystal

World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Created Rare, Otherworldly Crystal

World’s First Nuclear Bomb Test Created Rare, Otherworldly Crystal. This sample of red trinitite. Image credit: @TrinititeM…

'Icelandia': Is Iceland the Tip of a Vast, Sunken Continent?

'Icelandia': Is Iceland the Tip of a Vast, Sunken Continent?

Academics believe they have identified a remarkable geological secret: A sunken continent hidden under Iceland and the sur…

Researchers Discover Why Gold Is Concentrated Alongside Arsenic

Researchers Discover Why Gold Is Concentrated Alongside Arsenic

Why are gold deposits found at all? Gold is famously unreactive, and there seems to be little reason why gold should be co…

This Tiny, 120-Million-Year-Old Fossil Has a T. Rex-Like Skull on a Bird Body

This Tiny, 120-Million-Year-Old Fossil Has a T. Rex-Like Skull on a Bird Body

The new bird fossil. (Min Wang) A tiny, 120 million-year-old fossil, discovered in northeast China, is neither bird nor di…

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