S cientists have predicted and experimentally confirmed the existence of a material with “hybrid crystal-glass thermal properties.” Interestingly, this material – a specific form of silicon dioxide ...

Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety of technologies. These ...

If you're a fan of stargazing, make sure you have your eyes fixed on the skies this evening. Tonight (July 28) is the best ...

Last year, in a quiet part of Nigeria near Agadez, someone found a rock in the desert. It turned out to be from Mars. Not ...

AUCTION houses in the West make a living by selling off articles stolen from Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

NWA 16788 was discovered in Niger in Novermber 2023 and is approximately 70% larger than the next biggest piece of Mars ever found on Earth, according to Sotheby’s.

Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a ...

A rock from Mars sat in the sands of the Sahara, untouched and unnoticed, until a meteorite hunter picked it up in Agadez, ...