In nature, tiny crystals known as nanocrystals are formed slowly over many years. Rocks and minerals react with air, water, and carbon dioxide in a process called chemical weathering. These reactions ...

Top tips from David Boyce and his class, who have cultivated a 3kg single copper sulfate crystal A classic school experiment involves growing copper sulfate crystals. Allowing water to slowly ...

For centuries, the windows of the most luxurious villas of Pompeii, the baths of Emperor Caligula, and the greenhouses where ...

The centuries-long quest for synthetic diamonds, also known as lab-grown diamonds or human-made diamonds, came to an end in ...

A setback in growing light-responsive crystals led UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team to a novel method for mapping molecular arrangements.

Earth's core contains nine to 45 times more hydrogen than the planet's oceans do, according to a new study that could settle a debate about when and how hydrogen was delivered to Earth.

Battles are fought with guns, planes, tanks, missiles and drones, but they are sustained by metals. This is an inside look at DRDO's leading materials science laboratory, where quiet decades of work u ...

Every crystal’s shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of their molecules, but the molecules in photoswitchable crystals can expand, twist and change properties — from their color to their ...

For many decades, the method to obtain atomic-level descriptions of chemical compounds and materials—be it a drug, a catalyst, or a commodity chemical—has been X-ray crystallography. This method has a ...

This video explains an advanced Minecraft PvP technique known as Rocket Crystaling. It focuses on how end crystals can be used to deal very high damage, even against players wearing full netherite ...

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A new atom-by-atom crystal-building method could finally make long-distance quantum communication possible. Credit: Shutterstock Creating the same crystal through an alternative method could ...