Robert Lavinsky doesn’t deal in works by Picasso, Rembrandt or Monet. In fact, don’t expect to see any signature on the exotic pieces he displays – they were created millions of years ago by powerful ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The University of Richmond’s Harnett Museum of Art opened a new long-term exhibit this week celebrating rare crystals and gems from around the world. “Crystals: Minerals from ...

BENTONVILLE -- A new exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art draws inspiration from its namesake mineral, found in abundance in Arkansas, while expanding beyond regional confines to ...

With the help of one of the world’s most powerful linear accelerators, a team of scientists have for the first time “looked” inside the finest known specimen of wire gold. The Ram’s Horn gold specimen ...

A lucky traveler who discovered four large nuggets of gold in Venezuela decades ago took his finds to Los Alamos National Laboratory to help determine if they were single-crystal specimens. A lucky ...

A team at HZB has carried out the first detailed study of how magnetic and geometric ordering mutually influence one another in crystalline samples of spinel. To achieve this, the group synthesized a ...

A crystal is a solid in which constituent molecules or atoms are arranged in an orderly repeating pattern, distinct from the arrangement of atoms in an amorphous solid. The surface geometry of a ...

In and around Mount Ida, the identity of the official Arkansas State Mineral can be guessed just by looking around. In fact -- pun alert! -- the laureate is crystal-clear from billboards and other ...