When viewing star sapphire, a six-rayed star will appear to float across the surface of the stone. … Star sapphires contain unusual tiny needle-like inclusions of rutile.

So here’s former Green Lantern — and totally worthy — John Stewart as the first officially-inducted male Star Sapphire (until he switches back in, oh, three or four issues, we assume) as ...

To its passionate partisans, the phonograph needle is as bellicausal a topic as that needle of the medieval theologians on which angels might or might not throng to dance. Every variety of ...

Star Sapphire surprised Black Lightning, Red Tornado, and everyone else on the team by pulling off a down to the wire rescue with nothing but the connection of love, changing the game for what her ...

Star sapphires. In a class by themselves, star sapphires are generally dark blue or green to black in colour and display a dancing six-, or more unusually, 12-pointed star. Such stones contain a mass ...

Seeking the ideal substance for such a permanent needle, the late Thomas Alva Edison hit upon sapphire,† used it for the needles of his oldfashioned wax-cylinder talking machines as early as 1888.

When James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered DNA in 1953, Joseph Haines was making sapphire needles for phonograph records. Thanks to Haines and his Bucks County company, people were able… ...