Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Collecting rocks and minerals has a long history. Collections ...

It’s a question posed by a television game show that most adults don’t want to have answered. “Are you smarter than a fifth-grader?” So when Bill Case asks a group of fifth-graders, and accompanying ...

New display showcases extraordinary specimens from world’s top collections and provides cutting-edge museum experience The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, one of the world’s preeminent natural ...

From an early age, Charles Darwin collected minerals even if, as he himself laments, 'I continued collecting minerals with much zeal, but quite unscientifically--all that I cared about was a new-named ...

The Smithsonian has acquired an extraordinary 48.86-carat red topaz for the National Gem Collection. The Whitney Flame Topaz is one of the finest imperial, or “precious,” topaz gemstones in the world, ...

It is recognised that the Geosciences and geoscience collections, together with the practice and discipline of geology, are linked to past and present colonialism. This includes the study and mapping ...

A.K. Miles of Salem spent summers as a little girl traveling the Pacific Northwest with her grandparents, collecting rocks and helping her great-grandfather cut and polish them in his lapidary shop.

Rocks in the Gillespie Museum’s fluorescent room are a popular attraction for visitors. When exposed to ultraviolet light, the plain rocks glow with hot pinks, blues and other colors. Stetson ...