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 ...

Concentrating light in a volume as small as the wavelength itself is a challenge that is crucial for numerous applications.

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"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 ...

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

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

Quasicrystals are intriguing materials with long-range atomic order that lack periodicity. It has been a longstanding question whether antiferromagnetism, while commonly found in regular crystals, is ...

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 ...