"If our results are correct, then we have had crystals on our minds for at least 7 million years." ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. You can’t see the huge craters in this park while driving by it. Hidden inside the ...

Excited screams filled the air as two of my sons jumped from the platform and plunged downward into the mine below. Within minutes, they dropped several hundred feet and had traveled over a half-mile ...

What would a chimpanzee do if you handed it a glittering quartz crystal? Apparently, the same thing many of us would—hold ...

You might have heard of clear quartz-like crystals, Microcrystalline quartz. It is a special kind of quartz that forms in tiny crystals, so small that you usually need a microscope to see them. These ...

While quartz has long been used in timepieces, new models by Chanel and Van Cleef & Arpels show it having a moment. By Joshua Hendren Decorative gems have adorned watches for centuries. But, beyond ...

A crystal is a solid in which constituent molecules or atoms are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern, distinct from the arrangement of atoms in an amorphous solid. The surface geometry of a ...

Researchers have found that early neolithic humans in Britain used distinctive and rare crystals to mark burial sites are moving them over long distances. Previously, evidence had been discovered that ...

Despite what wellness gurus may say, no scientific research supports the idea that crystals boost human health—apart from the placebo effect, which can be powerful. But new research reveals that a ...

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