Mike Heilig, who installs tile for a living, spends an estimated 1,000 hours on each table. "They're one of a kind," said Heilig, who found the rocks, in the form of core samples, at old abandoned ...

A way of measuring well conditions downhole by studying samples of reservoir rocks, core analysis gives the most accurate insight into the porosity and permeability, among other characteristics, of ...

NASA has released an image showing that the space agency's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully retrieved its first rock drill sample for return to Earth. Taken by the Mastcam-Z camera on ...

Tools to measure a core sample's electrical anisotropy have been sadly lacking, according to a group of researchers. To solve this problem, they found inspiration in a type of logging technology ...

An international team of scientists have drilled nearly two miles down into the Antarctic bedrock, extracting an ice core sample that’s estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old, they announced ...