August 2017

Iron Carbonates in Earth's Mantle Help Form Diamonds

Iron Carbonates with SiO4 Under the peculiar conditions present deep in the Earth's mantle, iron carbonates can p…

Photo: NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite's Visible…

A team of scientists has recently unveiled a new material, a type of perovskites which can reportedly change its shape as it…

Construction crews uncovered a rare dinosaur fossil in Thornton on Friday,(Photo: City of Thornton) A construction crew…

A wildfire rages on in Black Forest, Colorado June 12, 2013. Its thick, bone-dry forests have contributed to the blaze. R…

Photo: IES Consult Scientists Create 'Diamond Rain' That Forms Interior of Icy Giant In an experiment …

The new minerals were discovered in so-called fumaroles. A fumarole is an opening in the Earth, found near to volcanoes, …

Stalactite-lined Agatized Coral from Withlacoochee River, Lowndes Co., Georgia New research suggests stony corals may…

How Continents Were Recycled Researchers from Germany and Switzerland have used computer simulations to analyse how pla…

Flat Earth model and Sun As your news feed slowly starts to die down with news about last week’s solar eclipse, h…

The Argyle Everglow, a 2.11-carat Fancy Red diamond, is the largest red diamond in the 33-year history of the Argyle Pink…

Plate tectonics has shaped the Earth's surface for billions of years: Continents and oceanic crust have pushed …

Tremendous amounts of soot, lofted into the air from global wildfires following a massive asteroid strike 66 million y…

A giant diamond named the " Pink Star " broke the world record for a gemstone sold at auction when it fetche…

For millions of years an unrivalled treasure has grown inside the Planggenstock in the Gotthard massiv. Until it was discove…