Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland features around 40,000 exposed polygonal columns of basalt in perfect horizontal sections. Chris Hill/Photodisc via Getty Images The reason patterns often appear ...

Why does nature always create a pattern? – Saloni G., age 16, Alwar, Rajasthan, India The reason patterns often appear in nature is simple: The same basic physical or chemical processes occur in many ...

The Basalt Chamber of Commerce brought out a big, red bow and comically-large scissors on Thursday for their first small-business ribbon cutting since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. HAVENS by KVD ...

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The Palisades cliffs west of New York City rear up from the Hudson River like the spine of some ancient beast—and that impression is not far off. Their basalt backbone is a remnant of an immense lava ...

What if there was an easy way to take the carbon dioxide from coal power smokestacks and turn it back into a rock that would sit quietly, deep below the earth's surface? That would get around a key ...