Almost every garden has a shady area that influences the kinds of plants that will grow there. Many people consider these areas a problem, but they actually provide the opportunity to grow an ...

Determining this and proving it was a complete surprise and a breakthrough,” geochemist Liuqing He told Newsweek.

Monazite is an industrially significant rare earth mineral, primarily formed through geological processes, the researchers ...

When my husband and I purchased our home on the island, we were told that the two staghorn ferns were worth some money due to their size. The old, large ...

China in a recent breakthrough has reportedly achieved the world's first extraction of a naturally formed mineral with rare ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that had preceded them hardly saw it as a disappointment. In ...

A new scientific discovery from China may help solve one of the biggest challenges in modern technology-the shortage and ...

Scientists have discovered a fern from South China that naturally forms tiny crystals containing rare earth elements (REEs).

People venturing out onto Anchorage trails may have noticed tightly wound green coils emerging out of last year’s dead leaves. Some people are collecting them, and others are posting their findings on ...