Here’s an exercise for you: type “crystals” into your favorite search engine and see what you get. If you’re anything like us, you’ll get a bunch of pseudoscientific posts about the ...

Quartz crystal outcroppings can be found all over ... is applied across them (and vice versa), has been known since the experiments of the Curie brothers in the 1880s, with quartz being one ...

A new study has found that some elements of concrete, like quartz, can self-heal when exposed to nuclear radiation over time.

It's been known for some time that radiation impacts the structural integrity of concrete. However, until now the details of this were unknown. Researchers can finally demonstrate what properties of ...

Not a game. This may look like the game Minesweeper, which used to come with Microsoft Windows, but it's really a plan of the ...

The atoms and molecules that make up all substances are connected in a particular way for each substance. In crystals, the particles repeat in a pattern that gives the crystal its special shape. Some ...

A typical association of gold crystals in white quartz matrix. To test this hypothesis, the researchers conducted an experiment designed to replicate the conditions quartz might experience if ...