Nature has used 21 different ways over the last 4.5 billion years to create pyrite (aka Fool’s Gold) -- the mineral world’s champion of diverse origins. Pyrite forms at high temperature and ...

Learning that a shiny rock is fool's gold rather than the valuable mineral is generally cause for disappointment. But for ...

Pyrite is often dismissed as “fool’s gold” but this mineral creates some of the most stunning crystals in nature. Walk into ...

A team from the University of Oxford discovered the ancient fossil, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite, at Beecher's Trilobite ...

Named Lomankus edgecombei, the arthropod is a remarkably bright golden color because it’s preserved in three dimensions by iron pyrite — a mineral better known as fool’s gold. The fossil ...

The ancient, gilt creatures represent a new species, and hint at the anatomy of an iconic group of arthropods.

According to Dr Leemann, who carried out a forensic analysis on blocks from infected homes in Donegal and Mayo as part of international research being managed by Geological Survey Ireland, the ...