Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Pale rocks on the red planet reveal a watery past and suggest the potential for life. Sometimes, scientists have to dig, work ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

Researchers extract plant residues from ancient bedrock metates, revealing insights into early diets and traditional plant ...

A U.S. Geological Survey effort to find underground deposits of clean energy metals has gotten bipartisan support.

Katherine Dunn is a journalist based in London. Her book on the history of GPS will be published in 2026. Some time around 250 BC, Eratosthenes – a Greek poet, mathematician and chief librarian ...

Its leaky roof rested on ten-foot-high walls that were originally constructed as a sandwich: vertical rock faces of rounded fieldstone on the outside with a mud-mortar/rubble stone mix on the inside.

The age of the lines and how they were formed still needs to be verified, but there is a chance this may be one of the oldest ...

Then, as the bit encounters harder, hotter rock, Quaise will switch to a ... one of the hardest rocks on Earth. It heats the ...

Quaise used a gyrotron to vaporize basalt rock during a demonstration in ... one of the hardest rocks on Earth. It heats the stone to around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, vaporizing it in minutes.