Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you know it or not, you encounter crystals in your everyday life quite regularly. Table salt, sugar and snowflakes are ...

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 ...

The poet in me (and our illustrious editor knows I am a poet at heart) cries out that I first tell you that in ancient times, folks believed that quartz crystals were eternal ice sent by the heavenly ...