TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Geological experts believe that gold nuggets in quartz rocks are formed as a result of the flow of hot ...

Living under a translucent rock can be quite comfortable -- if you're a moss in the Mojave Desert. A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that some mosses in the ...

Arkansas was once one of the country's largest quartz producers. Remnants of that legacy can be found in the hills of the ...

Microscopic Mojave Desert plants growing on the underside of translucent quartz pebbles can endure both chilly and near-boiling temperatures, scavenge nitrogen from the air, and utilize the equivalent ...

Traditional CCD-based EBSD detectors can analyze metals and alloys with speeds higher than 1000 indexed patterns per second (pps), however their ability to acquire data from geological samples has ...

Desert conditions are harsh, and mosses often spend much of the year in a dormant condition, desiccated and brown, until rain comes. Researchers discovered two species of moss that found a hiding ...