Across the ages, countless civilisations, species and ecosystems have come and gone. Yet, there are still a few extraordinary ...

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Quebec has confirmed the existence of Earth's oldest known rocks, dating back 4.16 ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Scientists have confirmed that a piece of Gneiss in Michigan stands as the oldest rock in the United States. It contains zircon crystals that formed around 3.82 billion years ago, placing it ahead of ...

Zircon also has tiny amounts of the radioactive element uranium in its crystal structure, which decays over a long period of time and changes into lead, Prave noted. Researchers can measure this ...

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It’s a fairly typical topic for the renowned New York science institution, which houses such specimens as a 15.5-ton meteorite and a 4.3 billion-year-old zircon crystal.

Raw gemstone jewellery is gaining popularity. It showcases natural beauty. People want authenticity and connection with nature. Each raw gemstone is unique. Crystals may offer healing properties ...

Now, however, researchers have found crystal "time capsules" on Easter Island that appear to have stayed in the same place in the mantle for some 162.5 million years.

What makes Crystal Lake uniquely dangerous is that it’s not, in fact, a lake: It's a mining quarry. From 1973 to 1990, ASARCO Inc. and, later, Heritage Minerals mined the site for titanium ...

This piece of the Acasta Gneiss complex, collected by Dr. Samuel A. Bowring, contains tiny zircon crystals that hold information about the Earth’s early history. Chip Clark, Smithsonian ...