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For all its beauty, amethyst is a fairly common variety of quartz. This here isn’t even a particularly special image, it’s how amethyst looks like most of the time. What is it about this mineral that makes it so special? Quartz itself is the second-most-abundant mineral in Earth’s crust. Amethyst is one of the more common […]
Higher qualifications, fewer jobs. What's happening?
It's simple, easy, and they've been doing it for centuries!
They may be more common than we thought.
The golden age of black oil is ending says a new report
The Nigerian prince is in trouble!
Children judge a book by its cover.
Who needs Indiana Jones?
It was a cute rodent, off the northern coast of Australia, on an island by the Great Barrier Reef. Now it's gone, because of us.
It's good news for us, but perhaps not good news for the rodents.
Norway is killing more whales than Japan and Iceland combined.
It's surreal and it doesn't make much sense, but it's definitely intriguing.
The system is abusing all of us.
It's a reveal which unfortunately surprises no one.
All your girlfriends are belong to me.
‘Theoretically the stuff is still edible - but we wouldn’t say it’s advisable’
The fact that people still debate the effectiveness of vaccines is ridiculous.
Rhapta was one of the most prosperous cities on the African coast, and one of the last trading posts of the Roman Empire.
We're still uncovering the secrets of the building blocks of life.
Things are looking bad for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
They're using the people we like to sell us things that aren't good for us.
China is drastically accelerating its efforts to build a deep-sea research platform - but they aren't doing it for the science.
It's one of the strangest experiment ever devised, and it may very well revolutionize science.
A 25-year-old from the US has been living without a heart for more than a year.
Wearable tech could save the hearing of thousands of soldiers.
With a potential ZIka pandemic luring over the Americas, one Long Island town is stepping up to bat.
It's just the early stages, but there's a glimmer of hope.
Our brain may be downplaying other people to save your relationship.
There's just not enough fiber in our diets.
We may actually get to see a black hole!
This is the Apollo Guidance Computer's read-only rope memory. That's right -- memory literally made from hand-woven rope. Depending on how the rope was knit, a software program could be initiated.
There's no need to panic though.
Norway wants to make all cars electric in the next decade.
It's way older than divers thought.
Astronomers working with the Hubble telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected, and this is intriguing.
Yes, it's actually happening.
The rich really do get richer - a new study found that the richest families in Florence, Italy, have had it good for a while. For 600 years, to be precise.
While robotics and AI research is taking massive strides forward, our social development hasn't really kept up with them.
Borders often highlight the relationship and differences between different countries, and here are some of the most spectacular and revealing ones.
Few things in life can claim to be truly breathtaking, and even fewer of those things are man-made. But this perfect rocket landing from SpaceX can definitely claim that:
Scientists have confirmed that the pharaoh's dagger is indeed not from this Earth - the blade is the "iron of the sky."
The good news is that it's easy to turn this off.
A Canadian think tank found that Canada's status as a 'world superpower' is threatened because the world is shifting away from fossil fuels faster than expected, opting more and more for renewable energy.
Researchers at Southampton University in the UK have developed a technique which allows them to store 360 TB of data for a virtual infinity.
Several tablets from the Roman Age have been uncovered and analyzed following excavation in London, including the oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain and the first ever reference to London.
Researchers are now one step closer to developing super strong composite materials, thanks to the mantis shrimp - a marine crustacean strong enough to cut a finger.
Australia's government wants to stick its head in the sand and simply ignore reality instead of making actual efforts to protect the reef.
#cabshots are taking over the internet
The Nature Index highlights scientific outputs from countries, organizations, and even individual researchers.
Some things on the internet are just mind-bending, and this is definitely one of them.
