Scientists found fossil-like traces in gypsum, suggesting ancient microbial life may have existed on Mars billions of years ...

Researchers have developed a promising technique to identify potential microbial fossils on Mars. Sulfate minerals like gypsum, abundant on the Martian surface, may hold clues to ancient life.

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

Scientists may finally have a way to detect ancient life on Mars by studying microbial fossils preserved in sulfate minerals.

The father-son duo were headed north to a gypsum quarry near the Mediterranean coast of their home country of Algeria. Sellam ...

Mineral scaling, a significant issue in membrane desalination, reduces water recovery rates and diminishes system performance ...

Planetary scientists in Algeria and Switzerland have developed a scientific instrument that could help hunt for signs of life ...

The filaments were embedded in gypsum and surrounded by dolomite, clay minerals, and pyrite. The presence of dolomite, clay minerals, and pyrite signals the presence of organic life. Prokaryotes ...

With 22 major minerals and 36 minor ones, Rajasthan is the country's only producer of lead, zinc, wollastonite, selenite, ...

Sellam and his colleagues would go on to find microbial fossils in those minerals, a first for Algerian gypsum. And later, as a Ph.D. student at the University of Bern, he and a team of scientists ...

Mineral scaling, a significant issue in membrane desalination, reduces water recovery rates and diminishes system performance. Gypsum and silica, are two prevalent types of scaling, each form ...