July 2021

World's Largest Sapphire Cluster 'Accidentally' Found

(Image Credits: Shutterstock) Pale blue stone, named 'Serendipity Sapphire' weighs 510kg or 2.5million carats A st…

A map of the World Ocean Floor. Credit: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division If the Earth’s oceans were drained…

In the time between mega-earthquakes, smaller earthquakes continuously occur between oceanic and continental plates (backgro…

Chunks of exotic green rocks from the mantle erupted from the San Carlos Volcanic Field, Arizona. Credit: James St John Mi…

Watermelon Tourmaline is a unique variety of tourmaline known for its distinctive pink or red core and green outer layer,…

Bacteriophages on a bacterium. (Graham Beards/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) Scientists who study glacier ice have found …

One of the 2.7 billion year-old diamonds used in this work. Credit: Michael Broadley Earth's atmosphere was primed for…

“Invisible” Gold – Fool’s Gold Actually Contains Real Gold. Pyrite with Quartz - Huanzala Mine, Huallanca District, Dos de M…

Newly Discovered Quasicrystal – “Magnificent in Its Complexity” – Was Created by the First Nuclear Explosion at Trinity Site…

Academics believe they have identified a remarkable geological secret: A sunken continent hidden under Iceland and the sur…

Why are gold deposits found at all? Gold is famously unreactive, and there seems to be little reason why gold should be co…

The new bird fossil. (Min Wang) A tiny, 120 million-year-old fossil, discovered in northeast China, is neither bird nor di…