Crystals have repeatedly been found at archaeological sites alongside Homo remains. Evidence shows that hominins have been collecting these stones for as long as 780,000 years. Yet, we know that our ...

The crystal chimp study, published on Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, was an attempt to understand what about the shimmering minerals is so attractive to the apes’ closest cousins, ...

A 17-year-old whose science experiment led to a massive probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and hazardous ...

Space-based experiments show fungi can efficiently extract valuable metals from meteorites in microgravity, advancing prospects for asteroid biomining and sustainable resource use. As humans look ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

Forget “ eye of newt and toe of frog/wool of bat and tongue of dog.” People in the 16th century were more akin to DIY ...

The DOE's Argonne National Laboratory has launched its Activated Materials Lab to study radiation effects in nuclear reactor materials.

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

The FBI's week-long investigation into "suspicious materials" found at an Irvine home stems from a college student's science project, his family's attorney said.

A joint research team at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) has successfully developed Korea's first high corrosion- and wear-resistant carbon coating technology to mitigate the severe ...

A joint research team led by Dr. Young-Jun Jang and Dr. Jongkuk Kim of the Extreme Materials Research Institute, in collaboration with Dr. Sungmo Moon’s team from the Energy and Environment Materials ...

Aging commercial and multi-family buildings face structural stress from corrosion, water intrusion, and material fatigue. Strategic restoration goes beyond surface repairs.