The Cave of Crystals is an underground cavern filled with tree-size gypsum crystals, including some of the largest natural crystals ever found. The cave is located around 980 feet (300 meters) deep ...

Tiny gypsum crystals can make phytoplankton so heavy that they rapidly sink, hereby transporting large quantities of carbon to the ocean's depths. Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute recently ...

Tiny gypsum crystals can make phytoplankton so heavy that they rapidly sink, hereby transporting large quantities of carbon to the ocean's depths. Tiny gypsum crystals can make phytoplankton so heavy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Discovered in 1999 during mining operations in the Mina Rica (the ...

These huge gypsum crystals in Mexico's Naica caves, some up to 12m long, have been growing for tens of thousands of years -- but scientists have only now discovered what's inside them. "We've ...

Calcium sulphate minerals, notably gypsum and bassanite, play a critical role in natural and industrial settings. Recent research into their mineralogy and crystal growth dynamics has advanced our ...

You would be forgiven for thinking researchers had discovered Superman's Fortress of Solitude. The gargantuan gypsum crystals in Mexico's Cave of Crystals measure up to 36 feet (the length of a motor ...

Scientifically speaking, the term “crystal” refers to any solid that has an ordered chemical structure. This means that its parts are arranged in a precisely ordered pattern, like bricks in a wall.

New kinds of liquid crystals resemble gypsum or lazulite crystals -- except that they flow like fluids. A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that ...