A pair of University of Houston professors and experts in crystallization have captured the first-ever real-time images of ...

You'll create a supersaturated solution and watch as beautiful crystal structures grow over several days, learning about solutions, saturation, and crystal formation - plus you get to eat the results!

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 ...

But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t plenty of variety to keep things fresh for the judges of this year’s U.S. Crystal Growing Competition at UB ... but if it simply gives them some curiosity about ...

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

Perfect for kids’ science projects or unique decorations ... First off, it’s pure magic watching the crystals grow! Pipe cleaners transform into sparkling, gem-like formations right before ...

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 ...

When the hot water becomes saturated with borax and cools back down, the Borax returns to its natural state, leaving crystals behind. If you would like to learn about the science behind growing ...

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 ...