This glossary gives information about the common rock-forming minerals, major rock types and some of the fossils that you may encounter in common building stones. Fossils are the evidence of ...

The Sio Silica mine proposal should have been an opportunity for Manitoba to build on its natural strengths, create long-term revenue, and contribute to industries critical for the future. Instead, it ...

Scientists have created the first sizable meteorite diamond — also known as lonsdaleite or hexagonal diamond — a material predicted to be even harder than the diamonds normally found on Earth. The ...

Brokenhead Ojibway Nation is holding a referendum on a prospective partnership with Alberta mining company Sio Silica, which wants to drill thousands of wells in southeastern Manitoba to extract ...

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FORT MILL, S.C.—Continental has put its focus on two more sustainable filler materials for its tires in the form of rice husk-derived silica and bio-based carbon black. The German automotive giant is ...

A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical drawings in the world—Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. This discovery suggests ...

Meet Bille, the name given to the world's first monostable tetrahedron—a four-faced object that will always land on the same side, no matter its starting position. This feat of geometry and ...

A four-sided shape that will always come to rest on the same side no matter what side it starts on has been built by mathematicians, decades after it was first proposed to exist. Mathematicians have ...

The Construction Safety Council launches an initiative to curb the risk of silicosis by educating construction workers on protective practices and exposure limits. In response to the growing threat of ...

In peralkaline and meta-aluminous melts, essentially all Al3+ (> 95%) occupy tetrahedral coordination, whereas for peraluminous melts, complex mixtures of aluminum triclusters with 4-fold coordinated ...