The 19th-century German toy pieces, made with quartz sand, chalk and linseed oil, allowed kids to create realistic structures ...

Hard water in many parts of Florida is a common problem. Minerals like calcium and magnesium can accumulate in pipes, ...

Illustrating showing Thomas Edison holding graphene on the left and a man with safety goggles holding a large blue crystal on the right Crystal craze: Fortuitous experiments led to graphene in a ...

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

From river corridors and wetlands to city streets and community spaces, students in the University of Minnesota Twin Cities’ ...

Connect With Source is a new, somewhat hard-to-describe downtown business that offers a variety of products and services.

SALT IS ONE of the most commonly used ingredients in the kitchen. And, if you've restocked your supply anytime recently, you might have noticed that there are a few more options beyond a classic ...

An ambitious goal to refill Utah’s Great Salt Lake by the 2034 Olympics is gaining momentum, with environmental groups, the Romney family and President Trump all in support.

There surely must be other benefits, but few things immortalise the discovery of fire than the advent of steak cookery. From the arguments of how best to cook it flaring up like sultry drips of ...

From health spas to film storage, salt mine caverns have been put to use in surprising ways—and they’re now poised to contribute to the generation and storage of clean energy.

NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively ...

Michael Carrick has always scoffed when, after matches, it was put to him that he is making management look easy.