From the hands-on activities to the music playing in the background, the rock was the star of the show at Lake Metroparks’ Rock Around the Park open house. Held at Jordan Creek Park in Concord ...

One of the most spectacular things about Central Washington is its geology. We’ve got everything from a sleeping volcano called Mount Adams, to basalt columns made of solidified lava, to Union Gap and ...

How hard is a diamond? What is the difference between granites and garnets? Minerals are the building blocks of rocks. They are inorganic, crystalline solids with a known chemistry. Examples of ...

Among those touch and see options are: real fossils and replicas that can be held, with others on exhibit; megalodon teeth replicas, with real ones on display; dinosaur claw replicas; marine fossils; ...

Some of the rocks tied in with Illinois' history: lead was mined in Northern Illinois until 1997 and gave birth to the city of Galena, while the purple mineral fluorite is the state mineral that is ...

Don Gerig’s daughter was five years old when she began picking up “pretty rocks” in the gravel driveway of their home in Canby, Oregon. The cardiac physiologist and father of two was happy to take her ...

GREENWICH — What’s the difference between a rock and a mineral? Learn that and more as the Bruce Museum hosts an “Introduction to Minerals” for its upcoming First Sunday Science event at the Innis ...

SERVES. I LOVE THAT. MIKE. ALL RIGHT, SO WHETHER THEY’RE BEDAZZLED ONTO DOROTHY’S RUBY SLIPPERS OR MARILYN MONROE’S BEST FRIEND, MINERALS ARE ALL NOT ONLY PART OF OUR POP CULTURE, BUT THEY’RE ALSO A ...

(KUTV) Salt Lake City - Today on Fresh Living Ruel Brown, artist and freelance production designer, sat down with the hosts to talk about Traverse Mountain's Kids Rock Campaign and important art can ...

Minerals aren’t just in rocks—they’re in your house, your food, even your body! From aluminum cans to toothpaste, and calcium to iron, discover how minerals shape the world around us and why they’re ...