Once they synthesized their new material, which contains barium, zirconium and sulfur, the researchers tested its ability to ...

The new materials also have innate environmental benefits. Unlike typical plastics, which linger in the environment for ...

Christopher Voisey's team at Monash University, Australia, proposes that quartz, when under pressure, generates an electric charge. This piezoelectricity may allow dissolved gold particles in ...

Geologists from Virginia Commonwealth University and elsewhere have found new evidence of bolide impact signatures within specimens from the Massive Australian Precambrian-Cambrian Impact Structure in ...

Quartz, the most common material to display piezoelectricity, is so abundant that it’s likely many people have noticed that when squeezed it can become able to attract charged objects.