4+ hour, 34+ min ago  (545+ words) What scientists found preserved inside these prehistoric reptile fossils has almost never been seen before in animals this ancient. The discovery of 280-million-year-old reptile embryos in Brazil and Uruguay has provided paleontologists with the oldest known fossil evidence of amniote…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (813+ words) Four hours a day, women carried 50-pound water barrels on their heads. Now giant nets on a Moroccan mountain have made that walk disappear. For generations, women in southwest Morocco's A't Ba'mrane region spent up to four hours a day…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (684+ words) A small group of nations controls the vast majority of the world's diamond output, shaping a market defined by geology, scale, and uneven distribution. From Arctic mines to African riverbeds, these countries determine where most these rare stones are found…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (335+ words) A newly mapped supercluster hidden behind the Milky Way reveals one of the largest structures ever discovered in the universe. A vast cosmic structure once concealed by the Milky Way has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, revealing one of…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (615+ words) One of the largest yellow diamonds ever found in Canada just came from a mine that was already shutting down. In March 2025, workers at one of North America's most remote mining operations pulled a rough yellow diamond from the frozen…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (633+ words) Officials say the Wangu gold field may hold more than 1, 000 tonnes of gold, a figure large enough to trigger comparisons with the world's biggest mines. Forty distinct veins of gold run through the rock deep beneath the hills of Pingjiang…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (483+ words) Beneath a quiet ridge in South Africa lies a 2. 7-billion-year-old geological giant that transformed a nation and quietly supplied nearly half the gold ever mined. Under those hills sits the richest gold producing geological formation ever identified. Geological studies and…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (648+ words) A Canadian exploration company just pulled rock from beneath one of Africa's most remote wildlife corridors. The cores contained something that isn't supposed to be there. All 15 of them. The Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area spans 520, 000 square kilometers across five…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago  (292+ words) A strange pattern spotted on a remote mountainside in Morocco, once deep beneath the sea, has left scientists baffled. Faint ridges in Moroccan rock have revealed an ancient mystery: signs of microbial life deep below the sea surface, where sunlight…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago  (609+ words) Cutting-edge low-noise amplifiers are enhancing ALMA's ability to unveil the universe's deepest mysteries, from star formation to the origins of life. The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array) radio telescope, located in the Chilean Andes, has long been a key…...