Crack open an unassuming stone, and you might just uncover a little conclave of crystals within. Their walls are glittering with quartz, amethyst, or calcite, protected by a hard shell that was shaped ...

A new shop in downtown San Luis Obispo is serving up scoops of made-from-scratch gelato created with decades of Italian ...

For years, thundereggs have fascinated Oregonians. The state rock is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. Here's everything to know about the thunderegg and where to find them in Oregon. On the ...

1. You have quads and hamstrings of steel: the result of many hours of crouching, then standing up again, then crouching, then standing up again, then crouching... 2. Your family and friends can’t ...

There are normal gift shops, and then there’s Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in Seattle, which threw the concept of normal out the window decades ago. This waterfront institution has been collecting the ...

The crystal chimp study, published on Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, was an attempt to understand what about the shimmering minerals is so attractive to the apes’ closest cousins, ...

Crystals have repeatedly been found at archaeological sites alongside Homo remains. Evidence shows that hominins have been collecting these stones for as long as 780,000 years. Yet, we know that our ...

Ancient rock crystals from Australia suggest that early Earth might not have been as different as scientists had thought from ...

The first big objective in Resident Evil Requiem is to find three quartz to escape the clinic as Grace. Here's where you'll ...

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

Twisting atomically thin magnetic layers does more than reshape their electronics—it can create giant, topological magnetic textures. In chromium triiodide, researchers observed skyrmion-like patterns ...

“Our system is remarkable because it’s incredibly simple,” said paper author and physicist David Grier of New York University.