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 ...

Quasicrystals, once considered impossible, were found in a 3D-printed aluminum alloy – and they make it stronger. This could ...

"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 ...

Table salt is a common crystal, for example. Salt’s atoms connect to make cubes ... Shechtman proved beyond a doubt that this ...

A QUT-led study analyzing data from NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered compelling evidence of multiple mineral-forming ...

A research team from the Institute of Statistical Mathematics and Panasonic Holdings Corporation has developed a machine ...

Table salt is a common crystal, for example. Salt's atoms connect to make ... revolutionizing the science of crystallography and winning the chemistry Nobel Prize in 2011. Working in the same ...