NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. A close-up photo taken by the Curiosity rover shows pure yellow sulfur crystals within a rock. NASA’s Curiosity rover ran over a rock ...

Pure Quartz (circled in yellow), meanwhile ... I don’t believe you can find this anywhere else, so good luck. Sulfur – While it is possible to find Sulfur nodes out in the wild, the best ...

But what about sulfur? Nobody seems to think much about poor sulfur, and when they do it tends to be derogatory. Sulfur puts the stink in rotten eggs, threatens us when it spews from the mouths of ...

There are materials that can store even more lithium than silicon; a notable example is sulfur. But sulfur has a tendency to react with itself, producing ions that can float off into the electrolyte.

The iron isn't pure—scientists believe it contains sulfur and nickel, plus smaller amounts of other elements. Estimates of its temperature vary, but it is probably somewhere between 9,000 and ...

Why Nature Chemistry spells sulfur with an 'f'. Many decisions must be made when setting up a new scientific journal. These range from perhaps the more fundamental considerations, such as what ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide ...

Asteroid impact sulfur release less lethal in dinosaur extinction Date: January 16, 2025 Source: Vrije Universiteit Brussel Summary: Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that ...