"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Opals may have been around for thousands of years, but they’re having a major resurgence in the jewelry ...

The Opals play five games in a week as part of qualifying for September's FIBA World Cup in Germany, and coach Sandy ...

Rain in the outback South Australian town of Andamooka usually comes with the promise of rare opals washing up — prompting locals to walk the streets with buckets, in search of newly unveiled rock and ...

The Australian Opals have announced their squad for the 2024 Paris Olympics, with a host of elite WNBA talent set to have the team firmly in the medal hunt. After a disappointing Tokyo Olympics saw ...

Some of the most vividly colored materials in nature, including things like butterfly wings, don’t obtain their color from pigment. Instead, their internal structure reflects light at a given ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The opal was once synonymous with dreary Victorian rings and cheap Australian souvenirs. Its reputation was so ...