where the misnamed “Herkimer Diamond” is found. Aside from its aesthetic charms, and disregarding the claims of mysterious powers made by crystal enthusiasts, quartz has a lot of industrial uses.

The GV2 Milan Swiss Quartz Diamonds Watch is now available to buy for a fraction of its original price as part of Debenhams' ...

Louis (WashU) in Missouri built their time quasicrystals inside a millimeter-sized chunk of diamond ... pave the way for precision timekeeping. Quartz crystal oscillators in watches and ...

They then bombarded the diamond with beams of nitrogen that ... Time crystals also offer a novel route to precision ...

One way of creating a time crystal is to knock some of the carbon atoms out of the crystal lattice of diamond, creating what is known as a nitrogen-vacancy center, which is a neighboring nitrogen atom ...

Some are crystal clear, others of smoky or colored quartz. Some are actual human size and of very fine detail, while others are smaller and less refined. All are believed to originate from Mexico ...

China announced it has discovered new deposits of high-purity quartz, a mineral with a small but crucial role in the production of semiconductors and solar panels. High-purity quartz is one of the ...