With one weekend down, the 25th North Coast Open Studios (annual but for the two years cut off by COVID-19), a free, self-guided tour of local artists' and artisans' workspaces, wraps up Saturday ...

Major wine company will lay off more than 1,700 California workers and leave the state ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

Astronauts have discovered tiny glass beads, called “Moon beads,” in lunar soil brought back by the Apollo 17 mission. These beads are valuable to scientists to learn more about the Moon’s past.

Apollo astronauts discovered orange and black glass beads on the Moon's surface, a surprising find among the gray landscapes. The beads, measuring less than a millimeter (0.04 inches), were formed 3.3 ...

More information: T.A. Williams et al, Lunar volcanic gas cloud chemistry: Constraints from glass bead surface sublimates, Icarus (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116607 Journal information: Icarus ...

The beads are believed to have formed from violent eruptions on the surface of the Moon that took place between 3.3 and 3.6 billion years ago. They would have arisen from the erupted lava being ...

A later variation appeared in a book, titled The Discovery of a World in the Moone by John Wilkins (1614-1672), an English ...

Evocative materials like uranium glass and zirconium refractory are obscured within containers made from concrete, blown glass, found steel, and modified consumer electronics. They sing, harmonize, ...

Ahead of her wedding to billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this weekend, Lauren Sánchez was spotted in Venice, Italy wearing a Schiaparelli dress. See her couture look here.

When Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, preparing to face a lifeless wasteland, they were taken aback to find the surface ...