Rock&Gem Magazine
Swallowed from Below!
What's going on deep beneath the American Midwest?
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
What Stone is That?
An excerpt from The Minerals Encyclopedia by Rupert Hochleitner, the Deputy Director of the Mineralogical State Collection of Munich since 1993, with a doctorate in mineralogy with an expertise in systematic mineralogy. (Firefly Books, 2022)
3 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Toxic Metal Pollution in Soils
Mapping the risks
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
When BROKEN Is Good
Understanding Breaks in Gemstones
6 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
THE LURE OF ULURU
In a classic example of understatement, most Australians simply call it “The Rock.” Rising 1,142 feet in awesome and solitary grandeur above the surrounding flat desert, it is one of the world’s best-known natural features. It’s also a sacred site representing 30,000 years of human habitation and an iconic image of Australia and that nation’s vast Outback. Previously called Ayers Rock, “The Rock” is today known as Uluru (ool-a-roo), a name of great antiquity that even predates the Ice Ages.
4 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Viewing the Deep Sea Floor
It's a rare event!
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
ROCK & GEM FIELD GUIDE: Peridot
Peridot is the bright green gem-quality variety of the mineral forsterite, a magnesium silicate.
2 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
A Shift Noted in Earth's Hydrological Cycle
It's being described as \"an irreversible decline in soil moisture.\" Earth's hydrological cycle, it seems, has entered a new phase, and it is global in scale.
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
More Stories from Distant Ancestors Human
Everyone loves genealogy. The further back you trace, the better.
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Spinosaurus Rebirth
A dino well-adapted to life in the water—or not.
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Promoting an Educational Outreach Program
Most amateur rock clubs are 501(c)(3) nonprofits. This requires a dedicated mission usually including charitable offerings.
6 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Was Myanmar's Great Quake a Supershear?
When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake ripped across Myanmar last March, 3,000 people were killed instantly and damage rippled into Thailand, where a high-rise building under construction collapsed.
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
An Iron Deposit of a Whole New Scale
A discovery in Australia is one for the history books!
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Fluorite Ridge
Collecting Light Green & White Fluorite
9 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
MAW SIT SIT
Maw Sit Sit is a rare, electrifying green stone only found in the surrounding region of the village of Tawmaw, north of Myanmar. Sometimes called “Chrome Jade,” many believe this stone to be a type of jade or jadeite.
2 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
FROM TEXTBOOK TO REAL LIFE
A High School Geology Buff’s Dream Classroom & Club
4 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Mars Excitement & disappointment all at once!!
With Mars exploration, it's two steps forward, one step back.
1 min |
August 2025
Rock&Gem Magazine
Happy Birthday!
A new source of helium for party balloons!
1 min |
August 2025
Girls' Life magazine
Julia Butters and Sophia Hammons are for real friendship goals
In Freakier Friday (coming to theaters Aug.8), they play soon-to-be stepsisters caught between family drama and a body-swap disaster. But IRL, they're completely in sync—and took our BFF pop quiz to prove it.
2 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
PSA: YOUR THREE PERSON FRIENDSHIP MIGHT BE TROUBLE
During the first week of school last year, 15-year-old Piper R. made a new friend. She met Jamie M., 15, in English class, and the two instantly connected over their shared love of Minecraft.
3 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
THE REAL GIRL'S GUIDE THRIVING IN HIGH SCHOOL
School supplies? Purchased. First-day fit? Lined up. Now all that's left to do is hit the halls.
4 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
WHAT I WISH I KNEW ABOUT EATING DISORDERS.
BEFORE I REALIZED I HAD ONE
4 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
GIVE YOURSELF A BRAIN BOOST
Yep, you can actually make yourself smarter.
4 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
READ THIS IF YOU CAN'T STAND YOUR SIS
She's your built-in BFF—or at least she's supposed to be. Here's what to do when sisterhood gets complicated.
5 min |
August/September 2025
Girls' Life magazine
Dear Carol
Sometimes my boyfriend doesn't respond to me for, like, a week.
8 min |
August/September 2025
The New Yorker
THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES
“Love Island USA” reaches its conclusion.
6 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
THE FLOOD WILL COME
How to think about the formidable power of rivers.
10+ min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
MASKING FOR TROUBLE
“Eddington” is a slog, but a slog with ambitions—and its director and screenwriter, Ari Aster, is savvy enough to cultivate an air of mystery about what those ambitions are.
6 min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
MONEY TALKS
Howard Lutnick, Trump's tariff czar, wants the rest of the world to pay up.
10+ min |
July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
Sink or Swim
Fifty years ago, a glitchy yet terrifying animatronic shark persuaded movie audiences never to go in the water again. Luckily—for the photographer Tod Papageorge, at least—it didn't keep people off the beaches. That same year, 1975, Papageorge was making his way across the country, from New York City, where he'd become known for his 35-mm. street scenes, to Los Angeles, where he'd shoot throngs of sun-dazed, sweat-glazed beachgoers with a clunkier medium-format camera. He made four trips to L.A.'s beaches between 1975 and 1988, and a selection of the resulting black-and-white photographs—detail-rich, often dense, rapturous yet funny tableaux of stripped-down bodies engaged in sport or sprawled on the sand—will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Connecticut through October 26th.
1 min |