NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery in the YSES-1 system, 300 light-years away. It revealed ...

In two related firsts, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered sand-filled rains on a distant exoplanet as its ...

J. plant of the Standand Oil Co. uses it. Essentially, this stuff is colloidal silica possessing immense absorbent qualities. It looks like coarse sand, but has pores so fine no microscope can ...

The global construction boom has created huge demand for sand – even in cities surrounded by the coarse commodity ... wind and water grind rocks into silica-rich grains, to make glass.

A silica sand mining project will move forward in a community east of Lake Winnipeg, led by a company that plans to create manufacturing jobs in the solar sector in the Interlake — but some ...

“Silica sand is less contaminated than beach sand ... For optimal aeration, the United States Golf Association recommends that at least 60 percent of this “root zone mixture” consist of medium to ...

A proposal by Sio Silica to mine ultra-pure silica sand in southeastern Manitoba has been denied by the province, just two days after the NDP government approved a different silica mine near ...