Inside a lab in South Korea, a rainbow-colored glint caught the eye of a graduate student. This gleam is the product of ...

They arranged dozens of red Solo and clear plastic cups, each containing one alum crystal, on the room’s large wooden table.

The U.S. Crystal Growing Competition is sponsored by the American Crystallographic Association (which is based in Buffalo), the U.S. National Science Foundation, VWR and Ward’s Science ...

Polishing the crystals to make them optically cleaner would be a good next step, as would perhaps growing even larger crystals.

The rest of the process happens more or less naturally, as crystals begin to form in the saturated solution. And boy, did they grow — long, prismatic lime-green crystals, with a beautiful ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In this process, optically ...

The largest snow crystal ever measured was 10 millimetres across, discovered by Kenneth Libbrecht, who photographed the record-breaker in Ontario, Canada, in December 2003. Libbrecht is a ...

A scientist and artist uses chemistry and art to create crystal art and this has gotten viewers awe-struck. Check the video here.

For a full explanation of the science behind crystallisation and written instructions on how to do this activity, follow the link below. Two attempts of growing crystals in sugar solutions.

The team tested their percarbamide crystals by adding them to soil used to grow peanuts, wheat, and lettuce. This resulted in taller plants compared to those grown using traditional fertilizer.

The team win the Stephanie L Kwolek Award for ‘CrystalGrower’, which allows a research team to grow any crystal virtually on their laptop, with both crystal habits and nanoscopic surface topography of ...