When looking at calcite under a microscope, a scientist would immediately recognize the crystalline form of calcium carbonate by its rhombohedral appearance. That is, calcite is shaped like a ...

This review focuses on the effect of water on the binding conformation of an organic molecule at a hydrated calcite crystal surface. A recent molecular dynamics simulation suggested that water ...

Two nearly spherical dinosaur eggs recovered from eastern China have drawn international attention not because of what they ...

Crystal-filled dinosaur eggs the size of cannonballs have been discovered in China by paleontologists. The two fossilized eggs are from a new species of dinosaur, which the scientists figured out ...

Ling Li, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, has found insights into building stronger and tougher ceramics by studying the shells of bivalve mollusks. EPFL's Laboratory ...

Spots of light glinted off the faceted sides of more than a dozen calcite crystals stuck inside a small cave at the top of a steep, rocky couloir. Tom Benedict balanced on a thin log spread across the ...

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author, who's considered today to have been a pioneer in the science-fiction genre, with novels like From the Earth to the Moon (published in 1865), Twenty Thousand ...

Ancient lore has suggested that the Vikings used special crystals to find their way under less-than-sunny skies. Though none of these so-called "sunstones" has ever been found at Viking archaeological ...