Planetary scientists from Rice University, NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the California Institute of Technology have figured out how tridymite formed in […]

Over 1,200 hectares of pristine rainforest in Venezuela’s southern Bolívar state have been destroyed by unregulated mining operations and other illegal activities […]

A research group at Finland’s University of Turku has found that colour-changing minerals such as hackmanite, tugtupite and scapolite have some hydrocarbons […]

Researchers at the US’s Sandia National Laboratories are working with colleagues at NASA to develop a reliable and resilient microgrid for the […]

Off-earth regolith mining would be crucial if humans are to succeed at populating the moon or Mars, research by the University of […]

Recent archaeological excavations have confirmed that an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming was used by humans to produce red ocher starting nearly […]