If you draw with a pencil, you can tell how soft the graphite inside is. Pieces of graphite break off to leave the pencil mark. But can you imagine drawing with a diamond? Diamonds and graphite are ...

While landscaping brings greenery to many people’s minds, rocks are an important part of landscaping, too. Perhaps more accurately a hardscaping element, the various types of landscaping rocks add a ...

What is the rock cycle? There are three types of rocks — igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic — that have formed over time in the Earth's different layers. A rock can begin as one type and can change ...

Geologists have come up with an original explanation of how nature may produce an intriguing class of magmatic rocks that are made up of only one type of mineral. Geologists from Wits University in ...

Scientists have uncovered new details explaining why iron oxide minerals are such effective long-term carbon traps in soils.

NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named “Wassonite” in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in ...

Cemeteries not only provide a peaceful place to contemplate and commemorate the dead. They provide refuges for insects, wildlife, lichens and flowering plants, and are wonderful repositories for the ...

Astronomers have discovered never-seen-before rock types, made up of unusual ratios of minerals, within the remains of alien worlds ripped apart by their dying host stars. The research suggests that ...

Minerals are key nutrients that your body requires to function. They affect various aspects of bodily function, such as growth, bone health, muscle contractions, fluid balance, and many other ...