Concrete is the most widely used human-made material on Earth and generally considered to be one of the most affordable, ...

Learning that a shiny rock is fool’s gold rather than the valuable mineral is generally cause for disappointment. But for scientists who discovered a new 450-million-year-old arthropod preserved in ...

Rock samples taken from 84 feet belowground. The researchers examined the rocks' microstructures to identify at the atomic scale where the pyrite minerals begin to oxidize and morph into rusty ...

Paleontologist Luke Parry told Newsweek that the fossils, originally found in New York, are an "extremely rare" find.

Pyrite, or fool's gold, is a common mineral that reacts quickly with oxygen when exposed to water or air, such as during mining operations, and can lead to acid mine drainage. Little is known ...

Ancient seawater pockets trapped in an iron pyrite framboid (left) and a stock image of a hydrogen fuel tank (right). Analysis of how the ancient water was stored in rocks for nearly 400 million ...

Iron sulfide, better known as pyrite or fool's gold, could have a new lease on the high life after researchers turned it into a magnet using an electrical treatment. Physicists and chemical ...

The acid water contamination (from exposed iron pyrite rock) over Skytop near State College was the most newsworthy, adding a whopping $80 million dollars to an already expensive chunk of highway ...

Cell energy expected to surpass both traditional lithium-ion and competing lithium metal designs with a ≥500 Wh/kg target A Next-Generation Cathode A Solid Power scientist holds iron pyrite, a ...

However, the team discovered that when using iron pyrite quantum dots, the battery stores energy in a fundamentally different way, and the same chemical reaction doesn’t occur.