Researchers have jointly led an expansive, years-long international collaboration that has resulted in a paper detailing the ability to control and increase resistance to deformation in pure calcite ...

Though most high-quality calcite-alabaster items here were thought to be made in Egypt, a new multidisciplinary Israeli study shows otherwise. King Herod the Great, king of Judea in the second half of ...

(Nanowerk News) No self-respecting construction engineer would ever choose pure calcite – a weak, brittle mineral found in chalk – as a building material. But what if you could somehow strengthen ...