Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body's health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...

Discover the Lizzadro Museum in Illinois, where jade glows, agates tell stories, and minerals reveal their ancient secrets. A rock lover's dream come true!

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs ...

Yes, the holidays are over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still plenty of fun things to do. And if you’re still paying ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

Ariana Church, 9, was on Penarth beach in Wales with her family when she spotted a mysterious rock - which turned out to be a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite ...

Most marine animals form their shells from calcium carbonate, which is a tough mineral also found in limestone. Some sponges and microorganisms use another compound silica. There is also a group of ...

The Sunset Trail offers, as the name suggests, prime viewing spots for Oklahoma’s famously dramatic evening skies, where pinks, purples, and oranges paint the heavens as the sun dips below the horizon ...

After the asteroid smashed into Earth around 66 million years ago, it didn't take life that long to rebound, a new study ...