Our friend Derek invited PaleoCris, Ashley, and myself out to a couple of cool sites he hunts for druzy quartz crystals and calcite crystals in fossil clam shells! The sites aren't terribly far apart ...

Minerals are the building blocks … for rocks. You may have heard of some of these types of minerals, like quartz, talc and calcite. While these types make for stunning scenery or jewelry, these ...

Calcite, quartz, and pyrite are just a few of the beautiful minerals that can be found in Jackson County. These examples take a long time to form, sometimes tens or ...

Scientists in Germany have collected dust from Qatar, Morocco and Thailand to analyze the impact on the performance of uncoated solar glass and uncoated PV mini-modules. Their analysis has shown that ...

And while this isn’t science-based, if playing with a rose quartz helps you de-stress and find calm in tough moments, I say go for it. Plus, they’re pretty, after all.

Studying calcite is important as it has broad relevance in several ways. When calcium carbonate is synthesized, it transforms carbon dioxide (CO 2) into solid carbonate, the final reaction product ...

In essence, calcite splits a beam of light into two dots based on polarization. By aligning filters and rotating angles, you can observe how light behaves when forced into ‘choices’.