This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. When we look at a rock, we often just focus on its size and appearance. Is it light or heavy? Dark or ...

The rock cycle naturally takes thousands to millions of years, but scientists just identified a new form of rock that cements in under four decades. Researchers believe the natural cements found in ...

Almost 20 years ago, New Scientist ran a feature called “Imagine Earth without people”, a thought experiment about what would happen to our planet over thousands of years if humanity suddenly ...