Several boxes of rock core are pictured Monday, December 23, 2024. The Kansas Geological Survey’s library of drill cores, which currently includes over 73,000 boxes of rocks, is expanding to enhance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mining exploration companies collect core samples like these ones to determine if an area is rich with mineral deposits. (Jeff ...

A library in Hibbing stores not books but hundreds of thousands of rock samples drilled from deep beneath Minnesota, offering a unique resource for researchers and industry. The Minnesota DNR’s Drill ...

British Library chief executive Roly Keating has said that the organisation is aiming to have some key services that remain offline after a cyber attack restored in time for the beginning of the new ...

At the beginning of October, the management staff at the Salem Public Library launched a project to permanently remove as many as 100,000 books from the collection that currently totals a little more ...

In 2015, a group of scientists braved the stinging katabatic winds of East Antarctica and ventured on a first-of-its-kind mission to save the planet, with a snowplow. With tractor wheels rolling and ...

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for ...