Confirming once more that it cannot be trusted, the metal known as fool’s gold, aka pyrite, can contain bits of the real thing, according to an Australian-Chinese research team. Getting at the trapped ...

Long ago, an unlucky arthropod was buried alive in a submarine landslide. Its memory, however, would be immortalized in the most glorious of ways: 450 million years later, scientists have uncovered ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Paleontologists have revealed a "remarkable" prehistoric creature that ...

Don’t be fooled. Even with your untrained eye for precious metals, you can use visual cues and a few simple tests to determine whether your metallic yellow find is pyrite vs. gold. Dubbed “fool’s gold ...

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The arthropod fossil used to describe a new species (left) and CT scans of the specimen (right) Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models). Edited by Emily Lankiewicz Long ago, an unlucky ...