A small, intricately carved, 4,000-year-old stone vial recovered in the southeastern Iranian city of Jiroft contains a deep red pigment that archaeologists believe may be the earliest known lipstick.

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The study revealed that another mineral, ferrihydrite, a water-rich ferric oxyhydroxide, is widely present in Martian dust and is likely also found in the rocky layers beneath the surface.

For centuries – maybe millennia – humans have wondered how Mars gets its red hue, but a recent study has some answers.

1 Southern Sichuan Gas District, PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gasfield Company, Luzhou, Sichuan, China 2 College of Energy, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China During the early Jurassic, ...

Kaolin at Campo Alegre Basin, Santa Catarina State, Brazil was formed from alteration of volcanic acid rocks. Halloysite clays dominate the clay fraction of the matrix of the kaolin body, whereas a ...

If you know one thing about Mars it’s probably this: it’s red. The distant planet’s inaccessibility has long made the reason for its hue a matter of conjecture. The prevailing theory has been that ...