Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mining exploration companies collect core samples like these ones to determine if an area is rich with mineral deposits. (Jeff ...

Core samples taken in the African Rift Valley could help to clarify how past climate change is connected to human history and evolution. An international collaboration of researchers led by several UA ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle - penetrating 4,160 feet (1,268 meters) below the Atlantic seabed - and ...

Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth's environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter ...

NASA has finally opened one of the last remaining samples from the Apollo 17 mission, the last time humanity set foot on the Moon back in 1972. On Wednesday, the agency announced that sample 73001 was ...

Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million years. They expect the sample to offer new insights into the evolution of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville's Metropolitan Sewer District provided a glimpse Thursday of what life was like hundreds of millions of years ago. The Kentucky Geological Survey accepted 2 tons ...

Scientists with the British Geological Survey (BGS) have been given a unique opportunity to study rock core samples taken from deep inside the Great Glen Fault – the United Kingdom’s largest fault ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crews plan to collect core samples at Chilhowee Park this week as part of a study meant to address flooding, the city of Knoxville ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — There is a kind of polar process happening in the parking lots on the Front Range. Over time, snow turns to ice. And the icier a pile of snow gets, the harder and denser it becomes.