Earlier this month, Pantone announced the two colors that it predicts will define 2016: a pale pink and a light blue that they’ve christened Rose Quartz and Serenity. But here’s the thing about rose ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Structural colors – the vibrant hues that arise not from pigments but from the interaction of light with microscopic structures – are among nature’s most captivating phenomena.

You might have heard of clear quartz-like crystals, Microcrystalline quartz. It is a special kind of quartz that forms in tiny crystals, so small that you usually need a microscope to see them. These ...