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 ...

I never thought I'd stoop so low as to cook crystals in the oven... HAHA! Just kidding, this is just a way to get these calcite crystals looking GOOD! These are the calcite crystals I found in my most ...

Using single calcite crystals with varying surface roughness allows engineers to simplify the complex physics that describes fault movement. Researchers now show how this simplification may lead to ...

Along a roadside in Anhui province, eastern China, cannonball-sized fossils recently caught the attention of paleontologists passing through the Qianshan Basin. Believed at first to be typical ...

Quasiparticles in motion: illustration of ghost polaritons in a calcite crystal being “launched” to record distances by a gold microdisk. (Courtesy: HUST) The existence of ghost hyperbolic surface ...

Sea urchins and mollusks form skeletal components from single crystals of calcite, the mineral that makes up limestone. This image (movie) shows the 3-D nanoscale structure of the inside of a ...