Gold nuggets have long fascinated treasure hunters ... how this phenomenon might operate underground. "By deforming the ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. People have long been fascinated by nuggets, large aggregates of almost ...

In a paper published Monday in Nature Geoscience, geologists in Australia write that piezoelectricity is the secret to quartz-produced nuggets of gold. Piezoelectric materials are solids that ...