To many people, a rock is just a rock. If anyone has been house shopping, you know how realtors will mention that the countertops are "granite" and you might wonder why, from house to house, they ...

When walking along a beach, most pebbles look relatively alike - and dull - but an Italian geologist has revealed their hidden beauty using a powerful microscope. His images, which show multi ...

the people who study how these rocks form take it at least one step further and that is looking at rocks under the microscope. However, this isn't your garden variety "make everything bigger" ...