Rocks in the Upper Peninsula that glow under a certain light are grabbing the spotlight. "Yooperlites" — or more properly, the rocks classified as syenite — are getting a lot of attention from rock ...

Most people do their rock hunting during the day, but you can't find "Yooperlites" until the sun goes down. Yooperlites are rocks that fluoresce in the dark under ultraviolet light. They became known ...

Planet Earth is a unique place: it's full of unusual things happening every moment. Right now as you're watching this video, ...

Legend says the Hindu god Shiva gave five powerful stones, each with a diamond inside that would glow when they were brought together, to Sankara. They make for an amazing sight, but to see them means ...

CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- A man in the U.P. is being credited with discovering a new kind of rock in Michigan and they're making a splash. Erik Rintamaki has been a self proclaimed "rock ...

The rest of the beachgoers, dog walkers and rock hoppers had cleared out Friday night, when Christopher Wenner was just getting started. Bent at the waist, and scanning the rocks on Duluth's Brighton ...

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When exposed to UV light, the sediment in this piece of volcanic rock phosphoresces, glowing green for several seconds. This brief “glow in the dark” effect reveals the sediment is made out of calcite ...

At some point in the dawn of humanity, a smarter-than-average homo sapien moved a rock away from the fire for warmth and invented the thermal battery. Over a million years later, as humanity struggles ...