Scientists have uncovered a Miocene-era rainforest in New South Wales preserved in unprecedented detail within iron-rich rock at McGraths Flat. The find challenges long-held assumptions that iron-rich ...

The dream of clean hydrogen has tantalized energy experts for years, but producing it has been tough. Many start-ups think ...

Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground at Earth's natural heat and forces to cook up ammonia for fertilizer. In a ...

Nearly two and a half kilometers beneath the boreal forests of northern Ontario, water has been trickling through cracks in ...

Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the ...

Then, they replaced the synthetic iron with olivine, an iron-rich rock found in nature. In this case, they also added a copper catalyst and heated the system up to 300 °C (572 °F) to mimic the ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia’s most extraordinary fossil sites – McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into ...

How do frozen environments influence chemical reactions? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Researchers cooked up a new recipe—without any energy input or CO2 emission—for generating ammonia, a key chemical for the agriculture industry, by mixing nitrogen-laced water with iron-rich rocks.