Iron-rich hematite, commonly found in rocks and soil, turns out to have magnetic properties that make it a promising material for ultrafast next-generation computing. In 2023, EPFL researchers ...

How did rocks rust on Earth and turn red? A new study has shed new light on the important phenomenon and will help address questions about the Late Triassic climate more than 200 million years ago ...

A New Forensic Clock Hidden in Rusted Minerals. A new study by Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault, published in the March 4, 2025, issue of Geology, introduces a technique that uses iron-oxide minerals ...

The formations are "banded" because they contain layers of hematite between layers of silica, which were laid down as sedimentary rock layers during the during the late Archean to mid-Proterozoic ...

"Hematite is an especially common mineral form of iron oxide in Utah, the name coming from the Greek word "heama" or red blood. It only takes a tiny bit of hematite make a lot of red rock." ...

VARANASI: The Banaras Hindu University is all set to carry out a scientific study on the ancient knowledge system of hematite materials used in the rock art of Kaimur range.Two scientists of the ...

A bizarre, spotted rock detected by NASA’s Perseverance rover could be new evidence that Mars was once home to microbial life. The Perseverance science team dubbed the rock, which measures 3.2 ...