Scientists studying Mars may have uncovered a brand-new mineral hidden in the planet’s ancient sulfate deposits. By combining laboratory experiments with orbital data, researchers identified an ...

Just recently, readers could learn on these pages that Betliar, a village in southern Slovakia, became the site of the discovery of a completely new mineral. Now, mineralogists from the Slovak Academy ...

Materials that encourage mineralization, mimicking the process in the human body, are becoming increasingly important in medicine and technology. This process, which occurs at the interface between ...

Zircon crystals have provided scientists with an invaluable tool for dating the Earth, revealing its true age to be around 4.54 billion years old.

Among the various bioorganic coatings (eco-friendly surface coverings made from renewable biological sources) currently being investigated, zein and polydopamine (PDA) are among the more popular ...

“These findings resolve the long-standing controversy on the existence of hexagonal diamond,” researchers said.

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder. Evidence of this was gathered over the past sixty years in meteorite ...

An international team of researchers has discovered an unusual iron sulfate on Mars, which may turn out to be a previously unknown mineral. The compound was found in ancient sulfate deposits near the ...

Materials that encourage mineralization, mimicking the process in the human body, are becoming increasingly important in medicine and technology. This ...

A mysterious structure hidden beneath the North Sea puzzled scientists for decades. Now new evidence reveals it formed after ...

Pennsylvania hides an underground river that continues far beyond what anyone has mapped, shrouded in mystery.

Vitruvian Man. (Leonardo da Vinci/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding far ahead of ...