Piezoelectric crystals have recently been identified as being the cause of a natural phenomenon that has shaped the rise and fall of civilizations. There are also frequent efforts to find socially ...

NASA's Cancer Cure is heading to the ISS, and it is the so-called "Monoclonal Antibody Crystallization" that has massive potential for a solution.

The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the difference? Researchers are finding out.How molten carbon crystallizes into ...

The atoms and molecules that make up all substances are connected in a particular way for each substance. In crystals, the particles repeat in a pattern that gives the crystal its special shape. Some ...

Time crystals, physicists think, could serve that purpose. And this experiment, Perdue says, is also a demonstration of the power of quantum computers to do science.

Like fortune tellers who peer into a crystal ball for insight, volcanologists at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory peer into the tiny crystals contained in lava flows to learn about the magma ...