Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so ...

A tour guide in the United Kingdom was confronted with something both rare and fantastical when he stumbled upon a ...

The Oldest Known Rune Stone Fragments Found in Burial Sites, Hints at Germanic Ritual Practices Archaeologists discovered ...

In a national park of northern Thailand, a “slender” creature climbed up a rock using its “leaf-like” toes to grip the ...

In an Iron Age burial ground surrounded by towering pines, rock fragments from the past have surfaced, and the faintly ...

There are over 4,000 identified minerals on Earth. Common rocks include granite, basalt, limestone, and sandstone. The most common rock-forming minerals include quartz, feldspar, mica, amphibole, ...

To comprehensively analyze the mechanical behavior of rock samples throughout the entire loading ... Figure 6 shows the evolution of the principal strain field in pre-drilled sandstone specimens under ...

Here are the 25 best rock songs of the last 25 years. While 2000 did not mark the turn of the century, nor the millennium (those counts start at 2001), it did signal a new era. The first decade ...

The year is 1981, the Cold War is very much a going concern and, when a Soviet nuclear Whiskey class submarine strays into Swedish waters, the world's biggest powers fear the worst. While nuclear ...