THE author of this convenient and systematic little treatise is Demonstrator of geology in the Imperial College of Science, London, where he has gained experience through the introduction of large I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nester Korolev swivels a knob on a microscope, and a tiny speck of a mineral that formed hundreds of kilometers beneath Earth’s ...

Michigan Tech physics professor John Jaszczak worked with researchers from around the world to identify merelaniite. In time, a better understanding of its chemistry may reveal useful applications. × ...

A scanning electron microscope, acquired in 2016 with a grant from the National Science Foundation, provides a powerful tool for students, faculty, and visiting researchers to study the structure and ...

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Scanning electron microscope images of trona found in samples of the asteroid Bennu returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Trona is water-bearing sodium carbonate, also known commonly as soda ash.

This image of a single crystal shows 30 million years of geological history of the Himalayas by tracing its thorium concentration and age. Matthew J. Kohn, CC BY-NC-ND These minerals are found in ...