The alignment of clay minerals in sediments is of high importance for their mechanical and physical properties. The development of this alignment starts with the deposition of clay, its strength is ...

Scientists have been using powerful computer models combined with laboratory experiments to study how a kind of clay can soak up carbon dioxide and store it. The atmospheric level of carbon dioxide -- ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The atmospheric level of carbon dioxide — a gas that is great at trapping heat, contributing to climate change — is almost double what it was prior to the Industrial Revolution, ...

Archaeologists discovered 12,000-year-old pottery at Çemka Höyük, Turkey, revealing some of the earliest known ceramics.