So far in this series, pretty much every material we’ve covered has had to undergo a significant industrial process to transform it from its natural state to a more useful product. Whether it’s the ...

Popular interest in the healing properties of rock crystals emerged as part of the 1960s counter-culture and remained a steady market until more than 50 years later when the pandemic catapulted the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts say this holy trinity of crystals can help see you though this month's Mercury retrograde. Looking for calm and clarity ...

Distinctive and rare rock crystals were moved over long distances by Early Neolithic Brits and were used to mark their burial sites, according to groundbreaking new archaeological research. Evidence ...

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 ...

The fossil of a bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs was found with some sort of rocks in its stomach. Previously, researchers thought that these rocks were swallowed on purpose to help clean its ...

Living under a translucent rock can be quite comfortable—if you're a moss in the Mojave Desert. A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, found that some mosses in the California ...