The magic of crystal formation had already been done by natural processes; all that was needed was a little slicing and dicing. As it turns out, though, quartz is so immensely useful for a ...

A slice of quartz ground to a prescribed thickness that vibrates at a steady frequency when stimulated by electricity. The tiny crystal, about 1/20th by 1/5th of an inch, creates the computer's ...

From calming amethyst for your bedroom to multi-purpose clear quartz for the kitchen, our crystal experts from Moon & Stone walk us through the essential crystals for each room in the home. By ...

Data storage has always depended on systems that toggle between "on" and "off" states. However, the physical size of the components storing these binary states has ...

There’s a romance about gears and springs that doesn’t translate to a watch that uses a battery to make a quartz crystal oscillate at 32,768 hertz, he explains. It’s akin to cheating.

Their findings raise some concerns whilst reducing others; for example, quartz crystals in concrete can heal themselves, potentially allowing some reactors to run for longer than initially thought ...