A little knowledge of rocks and minerals will help you identify everything from jewelry to fossils. While reading this article may not turn you into a geologist, it should give you the basic ...

Granite colors range the spectrum from white to black to pink, but what makes a single rock type so variable? Here we will discover what makes each granite a different color, what that tells us about ...

Researchers have found evidence of the oldest known use of cosmetics based on a mineral at an archaeological site in Slovenia. Excavating the remains of stone-age settlements near the modern town of ...