What happens when you let ten leading jewelry designers loose with a pile of dazzling Colombian emeralds? A powerhouse roster of female American jewelry designers shows us how beautiful it can be to ...
Last week marked the long-awaited reopening of the Halls of Gems and Minerals at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. Among the many upgrades to the formerly dated space, last renovated in ...
The international gem trade can be a shady business. In a quiet corner of a busy London pub, a trader, who asked to remain anonymous, tells C&EN about passing off synthetic gems, made in a ...
No trip to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York is complete without a visit to the Halls of Gems and Minerals. But there’s now a green glow emanating from one of its exhibition ...
Once gifted by Napoleon, the heirloom is now bejeweled in December’s birthstone Abigail Eisenstadt Turquoise makes a striking contrast against diamonds in this diadem from the 1800s. But the gems were ...
Spectroscopy was first used for studying minerals and gems soon after Isaac Newton attempted to separate sunlight into its component colors with the help of a prism. By the mid-1800s, researchers ...
The international gem trade can be a shady business. In a quiet corner of a busy London pub, a trader, who asked to remain anonymous, tells C&EN about passing off synthetic gems, made in a ...