If you were to hold a grain of zircon in your hand, it would look like nothing special — just a tiny, sand-sized crystal, no bigger than the width of a hair. Yet within that humble speck lies the ...

While Russian missile strikes on Kyiv have become horrifyingly routine during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the attack that occurred on March 25 was a rare event. Air raid sirens that normally ...

Unable to compete with U.S. carrier production, Russia is modernizing its navy by arming its fleet with hypersonic missiles. ...

Holly Harris ’22 and Liam Houlgate ’21 spent the fall semester of 2020 examining the unique physical and chemical features of the mineral zircon found within rock samples collected from Greece's ...

This week's testing of Russia's 3M22 Zircon (Tsirkon) cruise missile has left the West guessing whether Moscow's claim the hypersonic weapon could be deployed by the end of 2022 is idle boast or ...

The oldest known Earth stuff that remains on the surface of our planet is a mineral that's been called the "Time Lord" because it's so incredibly good at keeping geologic time. The mineral is zircon, ...

Ancient zircon crystals over 4.4 billion years old suggest Earth cooled faster than previously believed, implying liquid ...

Curtin University researchers studying a Martian meteorite have found the first evidence of high-intensity damage caused by asteroid impact, in findings that have implications for understanding when ...

Zircons studied by the research team, photographed using cathodoluminescence, a technique that allowed the team to visualize the interiors of the crystals using a specialized scanning electron ...