The Earth: a ringed planet, much like Saturn, surrounded by a hula hoop of asteroids. The summit of Mount Everest: a tropical ...

A rich knight likely paid a handsome sum to import the ornately carved monument, despite brutal conditions in the Jamestown ...

A huge 75-foot-tall square boulder deep in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains has been baffling people since it was discovered.

Cache Energy's technology charges limestone based pellets inside this ... But there’s one big obstacle to completely phasing out fossil fuels: The wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn ...

This innovation is one of a number of efforts to turn people’s clothes into a tool against extreme heat, which is intensifying as humans continue to burn planet-heating fossil fuels. Heat is the ...

Those occur in limestone, marble and on different other building stones. However, endolithic colonizations of gypsum matrices are less common, but some are well documented. This review focuses on ...

They covered all known examples, ranging from the oldest fossil corals to those living in modern oceans ... continuing down to the 'Silurian', from which the Ordovician had not yet been separated. A ...

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In an astonishing revelation, a remarkably well-preserved ancient giant panda fossil has been unearthed in a limestone cave in Chenggu County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province. This discovery, made ...

The average thickness of No.11 coal seam is 2.96 m, with a distance of 15.14–35.89 m from the Ordovician limestone, and an average of 25.4 m. The main aquifers affecting the mining of the No.11 coal ...

This finding from the the Lower Ordovician period is a testament to the persistence of passionate fossil hunters and a significant leap forward in understanding ancient polar ecosystems. The discovery ...