Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

In January this year, while most of us were enjoying a summer holiday, a group of curious minded South Australians quietly slipped out of the state on a secret mission.

At Leroy’s, Los Angeles, the artist stages her room-divider sculptures amid her parents’ damaged photographic archives ...

Sure, it was art, but it was more so a science experiment. Manipulating the movements of liquid was physics. Making the alcoholic ink dance from chemical reactions to drops of gin and whiskey was ...

The tiny town of Mount Ida is home to rock shops, you-dig quartz mines, and national forest trails.

Explore unusual museums in Illinois, from surgical history to Superman and Popeye. These quirky stops turn any road trip into ...

Sometimes the most extraordinary adventures are hiding right beneath your feet, and Lost River Caverns in Hellertown proves that Pennsylvania’s underground world is just as spectacular as anything ...

This place is what would happen if a natural history museum, a Victorian cabinet of curiosities, and your eccentric aunt’s attic had a baby. And that baby grew up to be absolutely magnificent. Walking ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show ...

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

A 2025 satellite photo shows a giant "Y" in the middle of the Taklamakan Desert, where a verdant river and a lengthy "red-white mountain" meet. The intersecting features are also home to an ...