Nearly four centuries after the Batavia wrecked, a new study about its precious cargo shows that stories can indeed be written in stone.
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A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and transported.
Vaporising crystals with a laser allows us to look deep into Earth’s past.
The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home galaxy.
The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.
Life depends on Earth’s ancient continental crust – but there are only a few places where remnants of it can still be seen today.
Zircons formed in the hellish Chernobyl meltdown are changing how geologists understand their favourite crystals.
Giant meteorite impacts may have created the land we live on
The origin of Libyan desert glass found scattered in an Egyptian desert has puzzled scientists for years. But a new look at the glass structure reveals its meteoric formation.
A meteorite hitting Earth at many kilometres per second puts ‘ground zero’ target rocks under immense pressure. A shock wave faster than the speed of sound can result – and new materials created.
Zirconia is a mineral with a crystal structure made from the elements zirconium and oxygen. It looks pretty like diamond, but is only worth a fraction of the value.
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