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 ...

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 ...

Despite what wellness gurus may say, no scientific research supports the idea that crystals boost human health—apart from the placebo effect, which can be powerful. But new research reveals that a ...

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 ...

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 ...

evolved on Mars, said the scientists who performed the study. "Here you have a really bizarre habitat," said William Schlesinger, dean of Duke ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Geological experts believe that gold nuggets in quartz rocks are formed as a result of the flow of hot fluids. However, this theory remains a mystery because underground fluids can ...