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Mineralogy

Scientists Identify Never‑Seen Alloy in Hiroshima Blast Debris

Pilbara Crater Dated to About 3.02 Billion Years Would Be Earth’s Oldest Known Impact Site

Scientists Find First Garnet in Martian Meteorite

Lunar Meteorite Preserves Evidence of a 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Giant Moon Impact

Young Mars Volcanoes Show Long-Lived, Evolving Magma Systems

New Experiments Suggest Earth’s Core Holds Nine to 45 Oceans’ Worth of Hydrogen

New Study Points to Human Transport of Stonehenge’s Bluestones, Not Glaciers

New Mineral Evidence Rules Out Glacial Delivery of Stonehenge Stones

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The Metals Company’s Stock Soars More Than 800% in a Year on Deep-Sea Mining Hopes

Chang'e-6 Samples Confirm Hematite and Maghemite on the Moon

Ferric Hydroxysulfate Identified on Mars, Hinting at Amazonian Geothermal and Volcanic Activity

Earliest European Blue Pigment Confirmed on 13,000-Year-Old German Artifact

Oklahoma Family Finds 2.79-Carat Brown Diamond at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds

Diamonds Reveal Nickel-Rich Metal Alloys Deep in Mantle, Confirming Long-Predicted Redox State

Reanalysis of GRACE Data Points to 2007 Deep-Mantle Shift Near Earth’s Core

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