Rocks are forced to change shape at or near plate boundaries. Rocks can experience squeezing, stretching, or pushing in different directions in response to stress. This response depends on the type of ...

There’s nothing wrong with switching things up. In fact, I’d say that most musicians out there have radically changed their style at least once in their careers. It just comes with the territory of ...

Today, rock and rap can be thought of as quite different. When someone begins to describe what kind of music they like, they’ll say, “I like rock, rap…” Hardly ever are they considered siblings, or ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

Carl Lipo receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society’s enduring impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability Program. Conventional wisdom holds that the island ...

Rocks and minerals are closely related, but there are fundamental differences between the two. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

In Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel formation, Perseverance has found rocks rich in organic molecules and minerals linked to microbial metabolism. Their arrangement hints at redox reactions that resemble ...

When you're zooming down the highway, seeing billboards, strip malls, and gas stations whipping by, it can be hard to imagine ...

A bizarre new type of rock containing plastic has been found across the globe, formed mainly from plastic we have created and discarded. This deposit is a combination of rock and plastic polymers from ...