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Researchers have demonstrated how a common mineral acts as a catalysts for specific hydrothermal organic reactions -- negating the need for toxic solvents or expensive reagents. Reactions among ...

The surface of a common mineral might hold a key to the emergence of life. A recent study reveals how alumina could have catalyzed the formation of the first complex molecules. Alumina, or α-alumina, ...

This micro mineral could be doing macro damage. Researchers at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine have found that childhood exposure to the mineral manganese can potentially impact their motor ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The mineralogy of Earth is determined by its chemical composition ...

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 ...

In the rogues' gallery of microscopic infectious agents, the prion is the toughest hombre in town. Warped pathogens that lack both DNA and RNA, prions are believed to cause such fatal brain ailments ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brigham Minerals, Inc. (NYSE: MNRL) (“Brigham Minerals” or the “Company”) today announced the commencement of an underwritten public offering of 11,000,000 shares of ...

TEMPE, Ariz. - Reactions among minerals and organic compounds in hydrothermal environments are critical components of the Earth's deep carbon cycle, they provide energy for the deep biosphere, and may ...