Scientists have just discovered an incredible superpower hidden away in the tissues of the fern Blechnum orientale, a plant ...

Whether you call them minerals or crystals, the Hudson Valley has a solid clutch of establishments that sell these beautiful stones. We drove many, many miles to find the best to produce a (semi-) ...

Scientists have discovered a fern from South China that naturally forms tiny crystals containing rare earth elements (REEs).

A new purple-pink mineral that has a chemical composition and crystalline structure unlike any of the known 4,000 minerals has been discovered at a mining site in Western Australia, researchers report ...

A common fern in China (Blechnum orientale) is performing an act of geological alchemy. It is quietly building microscopic ...

A 2,000-pound Namibian quartz crystal will greet visitors to David Friend Hall, the state-of-the-art gem and mineral gallery opening on Sunday, Oct. 23, at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

"A veces los volcanes pequeños producen gigantes, como este cristal de olivino de las lavas más recientes". De esta forma el Instituto Vulcanológico de Canarias presentaba el Cristal de olivino, una ...

Por: Denis Fougerouse, investigador de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra y Planetarias, Curtin University. El mineral pirita fue históricamente apodado ‘el oro de los tontos’ debido a su engañoso ...

"Al ser una piedra semipreciosa, los orfebres de Platonic la montan en oro y plata, lo que da como resultado piezas exclusivas y representativas de la zona, por ser una piedra característica de las ...