Interactions between iron, water, oxygen and ions quickly become complex. MTU scientists developed a more precise method to observe how iron minerals like rust form. One can easily see with the naked ...

Scientists have created perhaps the most detailed view of the rust formation process yet, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Rust is the result ...

For years, the Moon was seen as a dry, grey, and almost lifeless world. That is why a new discovery has surprised scientists. They have found hematite — a reddish iron oxide better known as rust — on ...