New tech uses sound from drilling to identify rock types in real time. By linking drilling sound to rock properties, it ...

A little knowledge of rocks and minerals will help you identify everything from jewelry to fossils. While reading this article may not turn you into a geologist, it should give you the basic ...

A spelunker licks a salt rock in the Malham cave inside Mount Sodom, located at the southern part of the Dead Sea in Israel. British-Polish geologist Jan Zalasiewicz won the Ig Noble Prize in the ...

Stylolites — irregular seams that occur in limestone — have been found to affect how acoustic waves move through rock samples. Laboratory-based insights from KAUST researchers offer an improved ...