Rio Tinto is placed to closed its transaction to acquire Arcadium Lithium next month after receiving all foreign investment ...

Hard and soft water are different because of the minerals they contain. Hard water has more calcium and magnesium. These water minerals can cause limescale, which clogs pipes and damages machines like ...

One would think that a volcano was not the most hospitable place for living organisms. However, the Borealis Mud Volcano, at ...

Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

A new company has been reaching out to farmers with a soil amendment and an offer that sounds too good to be true, so ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

CALCIUM carbonate can exist in three polymorphic forms, which in the order of their usual stabilities are calcite, aragonite and vaterite. Calcite is the most stable and the least soluble ...

What facts about rocks do you know? Even though rocks and minerals are abundantly available, many people do not take an interest in them, yet there is a lot to learn about them. Moreover, they are one ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

The new research helps build the case that space rocks brought chemicals necessary ... surprised to find traces of water-bearing sodium carbonate compounds, commonly known as soda ash, in the ...