Mislabeled, lab-grown, and made from plastic—fakes abound in the crystals industry. Who’s going to do anything about it? By Maddie Stone Published Sep 12, 2023 9:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science ...

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 ...

Your newsroom surely has been through the drill: an editor reaches out to some folks with an idea for a story. The cc line grows and grows as “stakeholders” chime in. By the end of the thread (or the ...

Here, an explanation for the basic concept of a time crystal. Time crystals would suspend the laws of thermodynamics because, while in this state, matter does not heat up or generate entropy, or ...

An out of this world experiment to grow large-volume protein crystals aboard the International Space Station has proven successful. These sorts of crystals, which may be used in everything from basic ...

Neolithic people sprinkled the crystals over burials. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hundreds of fragments of a rare transparent ...