rocks
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10 Beautiful Minerals You Won’t Believe Are Found On Earth
We’ve all seen our fair share of rocks, and most of them aren’t that pretty. The ones that are though can be totally mind-blowing. Ryoji Tanaka, a Japanese photographer and chemist, likes to capture some of the most striking elements, minerals and compounds in close-up (like the Uranium-containing cuprosklodowskite you see above) and the results…
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Mysterious Rocks Catch Fire Inside Woman’s Pocket
This is weird: These rocks combusted spontaneously inside a woman’s pocket, seriously scorching her right leg and hands with third-degree burns. They were collected in a beach and look fairly normal. Nobody knows yet why they started to burn with such strong flames.