That’s one small hole for a probe, but one giant leap for NASA. This past weekend, the space agency jerry-rigged Curiosity’s malfunctioning drill, allowing the rover to bore into Martian rock for the ...

Sea urchins can scrape their way through solid rock to make themselves homes. This ability has long been suspected but never demonstrated, until now. Michael Russell at Villanova University in ...

Quaise used a gyrotron to vaporize basalt rock during a demonstration in January (the video was sped up). A beam of electromagnetic energy traveling at the speed of light strikes a thick slab of ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. NASA's ...

A beam of electromagnetic energy traveling at the speed of light strikes a thick slab of basalt, one of the hardest rocks on Earth. It heats the stone to around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, vaporizing it ...