Clear quartz crystals are among the minerals most commonly used by those who offer natural healing therapies. With that being said, you might ask yourself, "Can quartz crystals really heal, and if so, ...

More than a century ago, the Chinese paleontologist and archaeologist Pei Wenzhong found an unusual trove in the same cave near Beijing where he found the skulls of the early hominin Peking Man. Along ...

For hundreds of thousands of years, our hominin ancestors collected crystals. Something about these stones made them desirable, even when they weren’t used for anything. But then why collect them at ...

If you’re feeling dreary — and it’s been a dreary time, hasn’t it? — my advice is to think about crystals. Unfathomably large crystals, if possible. Big news from the crystal beat: A 7-foot-tall, ...

A 7-foot-tall, 8,000-pound slab of quartz crystals found in the Ouachita Mountains was unveiled last week at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The crystals, discovered at the Coleman ...