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

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.

Scientists may have uncovered a promising new method to detect ancient life on Mars. A recent study suggests that microbial ...

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 ...