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U.S. Geological Survey scientists and partners have created an onsite, time-saving technique for building inspectors to ascertain whether vermiculite...

In a newly published study, U.S. Geological Survey scientists and their partners calculate possible alert times that earthquake early warning systems...

Environmental DNA picks up traces of the elusive mammals’ saliva, skin, waste, or exhaled breaths.

List includes minerals key to all sectors of economy including tech and defense

U.S. mines produced an estimated $75.2 billion of raw mineral materials in 2017 – a 6 percent increase over 2016 – the U.S. Geological Survey...

For the first time, high-resolution images show the three-dimensional structure of massive ice deposits on Mars. According to an in-depth analysis led...

The Department of the Interior has announced petroleum assessments from the 

Oxygen levels, dissolved minerals among factors responsible for high concentrations of radium in untreated water from aquifer that underlies six...

Some avian influenza, or bird flu, viruses that are able to enter North America from other continents through migrating birds can be deadly to poultry...

In the underground rivers and flooded caves of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where Mayan lore described a fantastical underworld, scientists have found...