I'm looking through the rock crystal windows of a tiny, ruby-set 18ct gold ski lift gondola, complete with minute skis, and fully hinged doors that open on either side. "If we can make something ...

Sweeping an ultraviolet light wand over a box of rocks in a darkened room at the museum ... Further clues to salt’s role lie deep within the microscopic world of the ruby crystal. There Garnier found ...

As it turns out, certain crystals really can help us forecast volcanic eruptions. These crystals are produced in molten rock as it travels ... producing tiny crystals that can be brought to ...

One of the great joys in studying metamorphic rocks lies in microanalysis of their minerals. With measurements on scales smaller than the thickness of a human hair, we can unlock the age and chemical ...

These minerals are found in metamorphic rocks – rocks transformed by heat ... we can unlock the age and chemical compositions hidden inside tiny crystals to understand processes occurring ...

Hundreds of fragments of a rare transparent type of quartz called "rock crystal" suggest Neolithic ... Rather, many of these very tiny chips were then collected and deposited at structures at ...