A rare mineral with potential industrial and medical applications has been discovered on alpine plants at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
A box full of diamonds, volcanic rock from Mount Vesuvius, and the geology guide that Darwin packed for his epic voyage on the Beagle will go on...
Vital to many modern technologies yet mined in few places, the ‘rare earth elements’ are in fact not that rare – they are just difficult to find in...
Paul Coxon (Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) discusses the materials that have each been heralded as the new “world’s hardest material...
Simon Redfern (Department of Earth Sciences) discusses how the "Star of Adam" sapphire was formed in the highlands of Sri Lanka.
The presence of even a simple chemical reaction can delay or prevent the spreading of stored carbon dioxide in underground aquifers, new research...
![Saxifraga sempervivum, an alpine plant species discovered to produce "pure vaterite".](https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/vateriteweb.jpg?itok=yIX52R1r "Saxifraga sempervivum, an alpine plant species discovered to produce "pure vaterite"., Credit: Paul Aston")
