When researchers placed a foot-tall quartz crystal and an ordinary sandstone rock in front of two groups of chimpanzees near Madrid, Spain, the chimps did something remarkable. They quickly ignored ...

Synthetic quartz may help reduce the carbon footprint of industries that produce things like glass, steel, and cement. In recent experiments, Federal University of Technology, Zurich, engineer ...

Spanish researchers conducted a series of experiments at a sanctuary near Madrid: presenting crystals to chimpanzees. The results, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, could shed light on ...

The DAMA/LIBRA experiment has reported an annual modulation signal in NaI(Tl) detectors, which has been interpreted as a possible indication of dark matter interactions. However, this claim remains ...

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 ...