Mike Heilig, who installs tile for a living, spends an estimated 1,000 hours on each table. "They're one of a kind," said Heilig, who found the rocks, in the form of core samples, at old abandoned ...

Doctoral student Caleb Norville of Penn State and Meredith Parish of George Mason University return from collecting a core sample in a lake in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains.

NASA is celebrating confirmation via data it received from its Perseverance Rover that indicates it has completed the collection of its first rock core sample on Mars. Data was received from the rover ...

Scientists have drilled 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million years. They expect the sample to offer new insights into the evolution of ...

Indianapolis Motor Speedway President Doug Boles stared into the layers of history and was overwhelmed with perspective. The recent removal of three track cores from the famed 2.5-mile oval offered a ...

A way of measuring well conditions downhole by studying samples of reservoir rocks, core analysis gives the most accurate insight into the porosity and permeability, among other characteristics, of ...