minerals

Amorphous Ice is an Experimental Side Effect of an Interrupted Crystal Transition

The crust beneath the seafloor is a vast but remote habitat, peppered with poorly studied microbes…

Scientists have detected abiotic methane, which forms from geochemical reactions without any input…

The Carbon Mineral Challenge will officially end in September 2019, but this first-of-its-kind…

Proteins are finely tuned, specialized “nanomachines” that catalyze necessary chemical reactions in…

The first minerals to form in the universe were nanocrystalline diamonds, which condensed from…

Virtually all the ice that we encounter on Earth’s surface, from snowflakes to ice cubes, has a…

The Carbon Mineral Challenge has now documented 28 new carbon minerals since the program’s launch…

When water encounters certain magnesium- and iron-rich mantle minerals, exciting things can happen…

In theory, the process of serpentinization, where seawater infiltrates and reacts with the mantle…

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation recently announced two new Officer’s Grants for deep carbon science…