“Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert. It shouldn’t be there, so now we have to explain it. Discovering strange and unexpected things is what ...

Miodownik, News Writer As media outlets across the country are forced to close, news deserts — communities with limited access to area news — have become increasingly common. The ...

Evidently, the discovery made by accident was like “finding an oasis in the desert,” Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity’s project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ...

"Finding a field of stones made of pure sulfur is like finding an oasis in the desert," Ashwin Vasavada, who is the mission's project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California ...

Winter in the desert is a peculiar thing. Absent is the overwhelming force that sculpted everything you see: Bleached signs, cracked paneling, squat buildings that seem beaten down by a scorching ...

I have a very clear memory from childhood of hiking with my family through a sandy desert wash in Anza-Borrego ... destination: a palm oasis with the promise of a refreshing spring.

At the Tinghir Oasis in central Morocco, crops like barley, alfalfa, and wheat are protected from the desert winds by date palms. “When there is no water, nothing green, the sand becomes very ...