Deep cracks in the ground are not alien in hilly areas. However, they can be a sign that a landslide is about to happen and ...

In the search for extraterrestrial life Chinese scientists have come up with a new idea: instead of looking for water, they ...

Major nepheline syenite deposit can be found across Khibiny Complex, Russia, Ontario, Norway, Brazil, Greenland, Egypt, and Mexico. In order to be able to fulfill rising demand, the chemical industry ...

Marissa Tremblay, an assistant professor in the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Department, and Ryan Ickert, a ...

Arizona’s violent volcanic history, coupled with the Colorado River’s millennia of cutting and churning through the earth’s crust, have left a lot of cool-looking rocks and minerals strewn throughout ...

Rocks play a vital yet often unrecognized role in the carbon cycle. Through a natural process that has helped regulate ...

Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71% of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes ...

Rock has always been eclectic—it has found ... In “Paint It, Black,” the sitar is used to help integrate the song through an impression of momentum, since this instrument can rapidly build ...

In addition, some people use iodine to treat fibrocystic breasts and to prevent thyroid cancer when exposed to radiation. Some of these uses are better supported by research than others. About 50% ...

A healing herb—otherwise known as a medicinal plant—is either collected from the wild or intentionally grown and used for a wide range of benefits. Some are traditionally used to reduce stress, ...

The aim is to harness lava as it is flowing after an eruption and use the molten rock as eco-friendly architectural building ...

Local architect Arnhildur Pálmadóttir thinks this method could be used for a lot more than defending ... or other urban structures solely of igneous rock. “We know lava has structural ...