One of these minerals is gypsum, which "has been widely detected ... one chosen because it is small enough to fit on a ...

He became interested in ancient microbes and the tiny fossils they leave behind in minerals like gypsum. And then ... Ph.D. focused on testing whether a small but powerful instrument called ...

Gypsum is a mineral and key ingredient in cement and ... as well as that of an infant who had been wrapped in cloth bands. Even the small ties used to bind the burial shroud around one of the ...

At this temperature the mineral anhydrite, which was abundant in the water, dissolved into gypsum, a soft mineral that can take the form of the crystals in the Naica cave. The mining complex in ...

It is a mineral used to make types of plaster which coat our homes, schools and offices - and in Cumbria sits the world's deepest gypsum mine. Outside the small village of Long Marton, against the ...