Identifying a mineral might sound straightforward: Analyze its chemistry, compare it to known minerals and voilà. But for geologists, this process can be a time-consuming puzzle requiring specialized ...

The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space missions–is really hard to analyze without some sample loss. But a new technique should make it ...

Swedish physician, botanist and zoologist Carl von Linné is today famous as the father of binomial nomenclature, a system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts ...