GYPSUM (AP) — Sinkholes have popped up for years near long-abandoned gypsum mines near Lake Erie, including a couple that run under a busy highway, and now the state plans to fill in some of the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Chances are, if you bought a new house on Staten Island from the end of World War II through the mid-1970s, it was constructed with materials manufactured at the U.S. Gypsum Co.

A groundbreaking study published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences suggests that a remote rock quarry in Algeria ...

Millions of years ago fire and water forged the gypsum rocks locked in at Cuatro Ciénegas, a Mexican valley similar to the Martian crater where NASA's Rover Curiosity roams. A team of researchers have ...

Researchers examine how Atacama Desert microbes use rocks as a water source. Several microbes in desert environments live inside rocks. To survive, such endolithic microbes rely on the ability of ...

A report authored by scientists from Johns Hopkins University; the University of California, Irvine; and the University of California, Riverside was published Monday in Proceedings of the National ...