"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......»»
Life-sized camel carvings in Northern Arabia date to the Neolithic period
The monumental reliefs at the Camel Site in northern Arabia are unique: three rock spurs are decorated with naturalistic, life-sized carvings of camels and equids. In total, 21 reliefs have been identified. Based on similarities with artworks found i.....»»
Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver set a high bar for Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl
HeartGold and SoulSilver are some of the best Pokémon remakes. Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are using them as a road map......»»
The Dark Asteroid Ryugu Finally Comes Into the Light
Using cameras aboard the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, Japanese scientists get a rare, close-up glimpse of a space rock’s structure......»»
Perseverance"s New Rock Samples Reveal Water Was Present on Mars For a Long Time
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance collected its second rock sample this week — and Friday Caltech's Ken Farley, a project scientist for the mission, announced that they've learned something. "It's a big deal that the water was there a long time......»»
Mars rocks collected by Perseverance boost case for ancient life
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples, with signs that they were in contact with water for a long period of time boosting the case for ancient life on the Red Planet......»»
What Perseverance is learning from the two samples of Mars rock it has taken
The Perseverance rover has collected two samples of martian rock, and NASA scientists have revealed what these samples can tell us about the history of Mars......»»
Rescuers race to save tortoises in France"s burnt biodiversity hotspot
In a deadly silent and scorched landscape, French scientist Dominique Guicheteau lies on his front, plunges his hand under a rock and brings out a Hermann's tortoise......»»
The best Amazon Original movies right now
Want to watch a sci-fi epic? A rock opera? A revealing documentary? Amazon Prime's originals offer them all and more, and here are the very best of them......»»
South Africa"s bandit slaves and the rock art of resistance
Not all South African rock art is ancient; some dates back to the colonial period—and was created by runaway slaves. It tells a remarkable story......»»
Geologists dig into Grand Canyon"s mysterious gap in time
A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder reveals the complex history behind one of the Grand Canyon's most well-known geologic features: A mysterious and missing gap of time in the canyon's rock record that covers hundreds of millions of.....»»
Diamond Age raises $8M to speed up home construction with 3D printing and robot arms
Bay Area-based Diamond Age this week announced that it has raised $8 million. The seed round is led by Prime Movers Lab and Alpaca VC and features a slew of additional firms, including Dolby Family Ventures, Calm Ventures, Gaingels, Towerview Venture.....»»
It’s now possible to play early ’90s CD-ROM games via ScummVM
Easily play Windows 3.1 CD games in a Windows 10 environment. Project Starship's frog cops out in force. (credit: Rock, Paper, Shotgun) The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple.....»»
Free Clipart of a Cartoon Rock Is Selling For $300,000 As NFTs
EtherRock, an early NFT project consisting of 100 discrete images of the same cartoon rock, each tinted a slightly different color, is seeing the price of its NFTs soar after crypto-savvy media personality Gary Vaynerchuk tweeted about them a couple.....»»
It’s now possible to play early ‘90s CD-ROM games via ScummVM
Easily play Windows 3.1 CD games in a Windows 10 environment. Project Starship's frog cops out in force. (credit: Rock, Paper, Shotgun) The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple.....»»
How a game about dwarves mining in space has helped me weather the pandemic
DRG combines 4-player co-op, non-toxic developers, and a welcoming community. Enlarge / Deep Rock Galactic is a bug-killing, gold-mining good time. (credit: Ghost Ship Games) I've never loved online multiplayer games. I'm always up for a few.....»»
How Deep Rock Galactic’s dwarf miners have helped me survive the pandemic
DRG combines 4-player co-op, non-toxic developers, and a welcoming community. Enlarge / Deep Rock Galactic is a bug-killing, gold-mining good time. (credit: Ghost Ship Games) I've never loved online multiplayer games. I'm always up for a few.....»»
Pokémon Presents August 2021: When it airs, how to watch, and what to expect
The Pokémon Presents showcase will focus on Pokémon Legends: Arceus and the upcoming Diamond and Pearl remakes......»»
Black howler monkeys adapt mental maps like humans
Ever since humans began committing their view of the world to flat slabs of rock and papyrus, we had a sense that our mental maps are laid out in much the same way. However, our mental maps are nothing like paper maps. Humans rely on route-based maps.....»»
Crumbly Mars Rock, Not Hardware Flaws, Scuttled Perseverance"s First Sample Attempt
After an alarming failure, the rover is set to continue its mission to retrieve specimens for eventual return to Earth -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
NASA blames Mars rover sampling fiasco on bad, powdery rock
NASA is blaming unusually soft rock for last week's sampling fiasco on Mars......»»