His Sanford garage is filled with rock core samples and the works of art he s created from them. Mike Heilig can see beauty in a box of rocks. His Sanford garage is filled with rock core samples and ...

The five tents sitting on the white expanse of the Clark Glacier look more like a winter camping site than a scientific field camp. Skis stick out of the snow. A pot on the propane stove holds melted ...

When scientists want to study the past and physical composition of something, be it ancient Antarctic ice or a geological formation, drilling out a cylindrical core sample is a standard technique. But ...

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Scientists working in the Allen Hills region of Antarctica have drilled the oldest ice core ever. Dating back an estimated 2.7 million years, this ice sample is more than 1.5 million years older than ...

WASHINGTON, DC, May 26-- Core samples are being collected for what could be one of North America's first commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects using a saline acquifer, the ...

Five months after landing on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is gearing up to collect its first core sample next month, mission managers said Wednesday. It will drill out a lipstick-size bit of rock ...

Scientists take core samples from the earth to learn about the past. It works at racetracks, too. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway last week pulled four cores from the pavement that offer a revealing ...

An international team of Earth and life scientists, hydrologists, chemists, and physicists, has found evidence showing that the Los Chocoyos supereruption occurred approximately 79,500 years ago and ...