Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

A five-dimensional model has successfully predicted the asymmetric fission of mercury isotopes, offering new insights into ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

For a while, the thin layer of plutonium that encircled the globe after the first nuclear weapons tests was considered the ...

Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia have confirmed plutonium levels in sediment up to 4,500 times ...

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