Living under a translucent rock can be quite comfortable -- if you're a moss in the Mojave Desert. A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that some mosses in the ...

Earthquakes may cause gold nuggets to form in quartz by generating an electric field that attracts gold dissolved in fluid forced up from deep underground. Enormous gold nuggets are often associated ...

Despite what wellness gurus may say, no scientific research supports the idea that crystals boost human health—apart from the placebo effect, which can be powerful. But new research reveals that a ...

Traditional CCD-based EBSD detectors can analyze metals and alloys with speeds higher than 1000 indexed patterns per second (pps), however their ability to acquire data from geological samples has ...

View from the southeast of the Feldstein. The site of discovery is at the red dot. Credit: LWL-Archäologie für Westfalen/F. Geldsetzer Archaeological excavations carried out during 2025 at the Iron ...

Desert conditions are harsh, and mosses often spend much of the year in a dormant condition, desiccated and brown, until rain comes. Researchers discovered two species of moss that found a hiding ...