You won’t see Jerry Haderly hiking around the local hills searching for gold, pick-ax in hand and faithful mule at his heels. Still, he gets his fair share of the glittery stuff using more modern ...

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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 ...

The last time anyone set foot on the moon, in 1972, astronauts plunged metal tubes into the lunar ground. They captured soil and rock and then sealed off the precious extraterrestrial material. One of ...