Glass ranks as one of the most important materials of our age. You have only to think about smartphones, or drinking glasses, or look out of the window to realise that glass in its various forms is ...

A recent discovery by a NASA rover has sparked excitement and intrigue among scientists and the general public alike. The rover has identified mineral structures on Mars that bear a striking ...

This mineral beauty, dubbed the "snow angel," was discovered during the digging of a well in India. The specimen is a silicate mineral called apophyllite-(KF), which appears in volcanic rocks. The ...

Scientists have used quantum mechanics to reveal that the most common mineral on Earth is relatively uncommon deep within the planet. Using several of the largest supercomputers in the nation, a team ...

The durability of glasses and minerals in water has traditionally been predicted using models that ignore the molecular details. Now the surface structure dynamics are shown to play an integral role ...

China has discovered a new silicate mineral, known as Nipeiite-(Ce), with the highest cerium content found so far, in a rare-earth mine in Central China's Henan Province. The mineral has been ...

The name for this aluminium-rich silicate mineral derives from the Greek word kuanos or kyanos meaning deep blue. German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), who published one of the first ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals. These mineral ...