Apart from their luxury connotation, diamonds are also desired for their far more tangible, useful property—being the hardest material on Earth. The glittering mineral’s durability measures somewhere between 70 and 150 gigapascals (GPa), making it a go-to component for heavy duty drill bits, dentist tools, and spacecraft protective coverings. Unfortunately, mining and manufacturing diamonds both […]
Ancient human footprints from White Sands National Park were previously dated to 21,000 to 23,000 years old, putting them in the last ice age. Now, new tests confirm that estimate.
The Puget Sound region may have experienced a single giant earthquake, or two in quick succession, in the year 923 or 924.
Scientists studying the McDermitt Caldera in Nevada and Oregon think they’ve found a new, more sustainable way to mine lithium.
There once rose a “eight-thousander” mountain in Nepal, now vanished, that would have been one of 15 such summits on Earth.
Australian geologists have added to the growing pool of research supporting the existence of a distinct innermost inner core.
Rocks remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere when it’s warm and rainy, in a process that’s like nature’s air filter.
The Earth’s inner core is separated from the rest of the planet by its liquid outer core, so it rotates at a different pace and direction.
It’s no simple task to determine precisely how old Earth is. Instead, it requires delving back through time by examining ancient rocks.
Results from early chemical analyses of the Winchcombe meteorite and 200 Mars-borne meteors reveal water and ancient amino acids.
