Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover, accidentally cracked open a seemingly ordinary rock, revealing an unexpected yellow substance ...

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

This time, it has come through an unintentional clash between the Curiosity Rover and a Martian rock in the Gediz Vallis ...

To achieve this feat, the researchers had a brilliantly simple solution: just heating sulfur and tin in the right way can grow pure, high-quality SnS crystals on ordinary silicon wafers.

Ultramarine dye was the most expensive in Europe until the 19th century, as the lapis lazuli from which it was produced was ...

Discover the Azores, Portugal's island paradise, offering volcanic landscapes, rich culture and unforgettable adventures from whale watching to geothermal spas.

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in ...

A new gold extraction method turns old electronics into treasure using pool disinfectant and sunlight — no poisons required.

Temporal trends of total mercury (THg) were examined in female polar bear (Ursus maritimus) hair (n = 199) from the Barents Sea in 1995–2016. In addition, hair values of stable isotopes (n = 190–197) ...