"The Rock" diamond dazzles in Geneva
The biggest white diamond ever to be sold at auction, dubbed "The Rock," will go under the hammer in Geneva on Wednesday and could fetch up to $30 million—or more......»»
NASA"s Perseverance rover deposits first sample on Mars surface
A titanium tube containing a rock sample is resting on the Red Planet's surface after being placed there on Dec. 21 by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Over the next two months, the rover will deposit a total of 10 tubes at the location, called "Three.....»»
Palau"s Rock Islands harbor heat-resistant corals
Ocean warming is driving an increase in the frequency and severity of marine heatwaves, causing untold damage to coral reefs. Tropical corals, which live in symbiosis with tiny single-celled algae, are sensitive to high temperatures, and exhibit a st.....»»
Sedimentary rock "chert" records cooling of the Earth over billions of years
Several billion years ago, the oceans were probably not as hot as often assumed, but were instead at much more moderate temperatures. This is the conclusion of a research team from the University of Göttingen and the German Research Centre for Geosc.....»»
Ancient asteroid grains provide insight into the evolution of our solar system
The U.K.'s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, was used by a large, international collaboration to study grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid to further our understanding of the evolution of our solar system......»»
Epic is shutting down older game servers, including Rock Band and Unreal
Rock Band, Unreal, and other games at Epic lose online services on Jan. 24. Enlarge / A couple of folks absolutely getting down to Rock Band 2 at that game's 2008 launch party at LA's Orpheum Theatre. (credit: Getty Images).....»»
The day the plastic music died: Epic shutting down Rock Band and other servers
Rock Band, Unreal, and other games at Epic lose online services on Jan. 24. Enlarge / A couple of folks absolutely getting down to Rock Band 2 at that game's 2008 launch party at LA's Orpheum Theatre. (credit: Getty Images).....»»
Where to watch Black Adam
Find out where to stream the latest DC Extended Universe movie Black Adam, starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Pierce Brosnan, Aldis Hodge, and Henry Cavill......»»
A Schoolhouse Rock! tribute to honor the passing of its last surviving creator
George Newall, a former ad exec who co-created the influential series, has died at 88......»»
Amazon drops Apple"s Magic Keyboard for 11-inch iPad Pro & iPad Air to all-time low of $210
Turn your iPad into a laptop with this top Magic Keyboard deal from Amazon that brings the price down to $210 — a 30% discount, with delivery by Christmas.Amazon's rock-bottom pricing brings the Magic Keyboard to $210.Amazon went a little price-dro.....»»
Rare Apollo mission moon rock back in Cyprus after 50 years
Half a century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon's surface, a minute piece of extraterrestrial rock has finally reached its intended destination, the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus......»»
Solving the puzzle: Cubic silicon carbide wafer demonstrates high thermal conductivity, second only to diamond
A team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Material Science and Engineering researchers have solved a long-standing puzzle about lower measured thermal conductivity values of cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC) bulk crystals in the literature than.....»»
NASA"s Perseverance rover collects two samples of Martian regolith
NASA's Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile of wind-blown sand and dust similar to but smaller than a dune. Now cont.....»»
This awesome asteroid impact simulator isn’t for the faint-hearted
The amazing Asteroid Launcher simulator lets you hurl a space rock at Earth to see the amount of devastation it would cause......»»
The most innovative headphones of 2022
2022 saw tons of new headphones and earbuds. And while many offered rock-solid improvements to the formula, these are the ones that stood out from the crowd......»»
How Silicon Valley looks at the Taiwan miracle (7): Businesses have no faith in the government"s energy policy
Larry Diamond, the co-moderator of a symposium that I took part in at Stanford University's Hoover Research Center, is known for his research on democracy in emerging countries. Once dubbed "Mr Democracy" by Time, Diamond criticized Taiwan for making.....»»
Fossil overturns more than a century of knowledge about the origin of modern birds
Fossilized fragments of a skeleton, hidden within a rock the size of a grapefruit, have helped upend one of the longest-standing assumptions about the origins of modern birds......»»
Mapping the chemistry of the Earth"s mantle
The Earth's mantle makes up about 85% of the Earth's volume and is made of solid rock. But exactly what rock types is the mantle made of, and how are they distributed throughout the mantle? An international team of researchers—including UT research.....»»
Searching for new particles using quantum sensors
In a recent study published in the journal National Science Review, a laboratory search for exotic spin-dependent interactions was conducted with an ensemble-NV-diamond magnetometer. New experimental constraints on two types of exotic interactions we.....»»
Hawaii volcano shoots lava fountains 200 feet high: USGS
Fountains of lava up to 200 feet (60 meters) high have been fired into the air from Hawaii's Mauna Loa, geologists say, generating rivers of molten rock from the world's largest active volcano......»»
From biomass to functional crystalline diamond nanothread
New research from a team of scientists led by Drs. Kuo Li and Haiyan Zheng from the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR) reported the first synthesis of a three-dimensional crystalline carbon nanothread (CNThs) f.....»»