Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

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Scientists reveal that earthquakes generate electricity in quartz, explaining how enormous gold nuggets grow in deep rock fractures.

We are going back 55 million years. That was when Greenland and Norway began to drift apart, causing the Atlantic Ocean to ...

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

The effects of climate change could awaken hundreds of volcanoes worldwide – which in turn could worsen the effects of ...

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

An analysis of Hawaii’s volcanic rocks revealed Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals, a study found. The elements emerge when ocean islands form.

Giant bodies of sand found under the North Sea flip the rules of geology and may reshape how experts approach underground ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...