BUFFALO, N.Y. -- He was an odd-duck Vermont farmer who invented photomicrography -- the use of photography to capture images in a microscope -- and produced thousands of stunning photographs of snow ...

Crystals like amethyst are the ROCK STARS of mineralogy -- and one collector’s particular obsession Tracy Smith shows us the goods: Seattle, Washington wears its natural beauty out in the open. But ...

Lots of kids collect minerals, but Richard Berger wasn’t one of them. The Bronx native didn’t see his first chunk of quartz until he was in his 20s. Disillusioned with medical school, Berger was ...