A tiny new mineral named ehrigite, containing bismuth and tellurium, could revolutionize mining exploration and renewable ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

The price of gold has increased approximately 4,750% since 1935 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt raised the value of gold to $35 per ounce. This is compared to today’s gold prices (June 2020) that ...

Tropospheric scintillation on Earth-space paths greatly increases at low elevation angles and/or higher carrier frequencies, may impair low margin systems, and can interfere with the power control ...

Based on the power-law relation between rain intensity and corresponding specific attenuation, precipitation inversion by oblique earth–space link (OEL) has become a supplement to conventional method.

This article was originally published with the title “The Organic Origin of the Earth's Crust” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 32 No. 23 (June 1875), p. 352 doi:10.1038 ...