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'The Rock' white diamond could fetch $20-30 million -- or more. The biggest white diamond ever to be sold at auction, dubbed "The Rock," will go under the hammer in Geneva on Wednesday and could fetch up to $30 million—or more. …

New details of our past are coming to light, hiding in the nooks and crannies of the world, as we refine our techniques to go looking for them. Most lauded is the reconstruction of the evolution of humanity since our African origins around 300,000 years ago, by analyzing our living and fossil DNA.  Replete with the ghosts of African and Eurasian populations of the deep past, these have been resurrected only through the ability of science to reach into the world of the minuscule by studying biomolecules.Now, digital…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Adding rock dust to UK agricultural soils could absorb up to 45% of the atmospheric carbon dioxide needed to reach net zero, according to a major new study led by scientists at the University of Sheffield. …

The current Nissan Pathfinder is all about re-discovery. Nissan worked hard to bring the Pathfinder back to its roots for its fifth generation, and while it was certainly a step in the right direction, the spirit of the SUV still felt very rounded-off and not very eager to find a path instead of pavement. That's about to change with the 2023 Nissan Pathfinder Rock Creek.Adventure came a-calling again, and Nissan is finally giving the truck the ruggedness that many enthusiasts are craving. But unlike the previous-gen Rock…

The hunt to find signs of ancient life on Mars involves bringing back rock samples from the Red Planet — these are currently being collected by NASA's Perseverance rover on the 45-km-wide Jezero Crater. The initial plan was to send a sample-return lander (SRL) by 2026 and get back the samples by 2031. But that timeline appears to have been pushed back. NASA has announced that the plan would now include an additional lander because of which the SRL launch date has been pushed back to 2028 and the sample return to…