The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

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Discover how rocks, minerals & the rock cycle change your world. Join the Science Trek team to explore rocks and minerals! Discover how the Earth formed, the three types of rocks, the rock cycle, and ...

The limestone canyons along the Pecos River in southwest Texas are covered in ancient art. Painted by unidentified Indigenous peoples long ago, the Pecos River style murals stretch into northern ...

"Mineral-only" sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of "chemicals," a belief that "mineral" products are inherently safer, and confusion about how sunscreens ...

Anna Wang receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Moderna Australia. Jon Beves receives funding from the ...

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The specimens in the Science History Institute's latest exhibit are spiky, striking and, in some cases, fluorescent. A few are toxic, and at least one is otherworldly. All of them are on permanent ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet.