Scholar Rock has shed Novo Nordisk’s troubled Catalent facility as a contract manufacturer in its FDA refiling for apitegromab, a candidate for spinal muscular atrophy. The Cambridge, ...

If you've got a fire pit, there are certain types of rocks that will explode if they make it into the flames. Here's what you ...

Rock forms the foundation of everything in our mountains, and each type has its own story to tell. Here's how to understand ...

Scientists have found a new type of rock inside a Martian meteorite that contains andradite garnet, a mineral often ...

The new Cooperative National Geologic Map from USGS offers map layers including age, geomaterial, and original map source. Credit: USGS, Public Domain A new, precisely detailed map of the continental ...

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson gained a noticeable amount of muscle mass for his role in 'The Smashing Machine' Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic ; Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson maintains his ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name “Hadean” comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...

A rocky outcrop in a remote corner of northern Quebec appears serene in its eerie isolation on the eastern shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay. But over the past two decades, this exposed remnant of ancient ...

In a recent study, geologists say Michigan is home to the oldest known rock in the nation. Watersmeet gneiss is found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Minnesota's Morton gneiss previously held the title ...

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought. Turns out, it’s not the ...

Metamorphic proteins can be thought of as the "shapeshifters" of human, animal and bacterial cells. Their ability to drastically switch between two different shapes enables them to adapt to changing ...