minerals

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation recently announced two new Officer’s Grants for deep carbon science…

As a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the early 1950s, Stanley Miller attempted to…

Three years and 15 new minerals later, the Carbon Mineral Challenge continues to produce surprises…

In a project funded by NASA, Deep Energy and Deep Life Community member Jennifer Macalady (…

DCO Extreme Physics and Chemistry Community member Eglantine Boulard with Deep Life Community…

A new study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters [1] finds that carbonates…

The recent discovery of an unusual inclusion in a rare, super-deep diamond means that calcium…

The mineral is a “natural anhydrous ammonium hydrogen urate,” explained Fabrizio Nestola, professor…

In a new paper in Nature Geoscience [1], DCO researchers report the surprising news that iron in…

Each supercontinent has its quirks, but one, called Rodinia, assembled from 1.3 to 0.9 billion…