Fossilization is an invaluable process for gaining a window into the past, but it can also create a tripping hazard. The way Angela Piller, collections manager at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks ...

Petrified Forest National Park, in northeastern Arizona, is known for — and named in honor of — its extensive deposits of petrified wood. So impressive and picturesque is the forest that it was used ...

YAKIMA — Researchers at a national science laboratory in Richland have found a way to achieve in days what takes Mother Nature millions of years: converting wood to mineral. The ability to make ...

This rosy-pink chunk of petrified wood from Utah's Chinle Formation is the oldest-known fire-scarred fossil. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After serving nearly 30 years as a doorstop for a nuclear physicist, a ...

Researchers at a national science laboratory in south-central Washington have found a way to achieve in days what takes Mother Nature millions of years — converting wood to mineral. The ability to ...

Achieving what would take millions of years in only a few days, scientists have drastically sped up the process of petrifying wood. Yongsoon Shin and his colleagues at the Pacific Northwest National ...

RICHLAND, Wash.--California has Silicon Valley. Could a Silicon Forest in Washington be next? A team of materials scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is on it. Yongsoon Shin and ...

Nature continues to prove that it is the ultimate artist, crafting beauty that defies imagination. A recent discovery in ...

Source: Kumar Appaiah/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Humans are social animals. We are strongly influenced by those around us. We adapt to what we perceive as normal behavior in an environment – the social norm ...

Source: Kumar Appaiah/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Humans are social animals. We are strongly influenced by those around us. We adapt to what we perceive as normal behavior in an environment – the social norm ...