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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A cave in the Dordogne George Grant MacCurdy led the five year project at Abri des Merveilles. Between 1924 and 1929, his team recovered seven rock crystal tools from the site’s sediment layers. The ...

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 ...

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 ...