March 2023

Amateur Gold Digger Finds Huge Nugget Worth $160,000 in Victoria

An amateur gold digger armed with an inexpensive metal detector has hit the jackpot in Australia after finding a 4.6kg gold …

Fracking caused the biggest earthquake in Alberta's history, experts say A new study by Stanford University researchers …

More Than 100 Million Carat of Diamonds Produce Every Year, Are Diamonds Really Rare? Diamonds are popular gemstones surrou…

Pele's Hair Pele's Hair is a natural spun glass formed by blowing-out during quiet fountaining of fluid lava, cascad…

Billions of years ago, crushed quartz reacting with water could have created the conditions needed for the evolution of the …

A diamond discovered at an Arkansas state park has been dubbed "Bud" by the man who discovered it. An Arkansas ma…

Scientists have discovered rocks made of melted plastic waste on a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean. The discovery,…

Cretaceous Amber Preserves Lizard Carcass With Necrophagous Insects. The researchers examined three excellently preserved Cr…

Oldest Fossils of Mysterious Animal Group Are Really Seaweeds. (Photo: Zhang Xiguang/Yunnan University/PA) A new study has …

The largest ants that ever lived were the Titanomyrma ants. They lived during the Eocene epoch, about 47 million years ago. …

What is Fulgurite? Fulgurites are natural hollow glass tubes often formed during lightning strikes, in quartzose sand, silic…

Salt Deserts Are Covered in Strange, Repeating Patterns. We've Finally Figured Out Why The spectacular, hexagonal shapes…

Vanadinite is a lead chlorovanadate mineral, belonging to the apatite group. It's primarily composed of lead, vanadium,…