A crystal will have a certain number of flat sides, sharp edges, and pointy comers. Examples of crystals include sugar, snowflakes (ice crystals), diamonds, and salts, such as the Epsom salt in this ...

Andrew Iams saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope. He was examining a sliver of a new aluminum ...

"Everyone who knows the area," says Fisher, "is on pins and needles, because caverns with even more fantastic crystal formations could be found any day." Previously, the world’s largest examples ...

A standard time crystal is a new phase of matter that features perpetual motion without expending energy. According to Chong ...

Researchers at Osaka University have revealed a link between the equations describing strain caused by atomic dislocations in ...