Scientifically speaking, the term “crystal” refers to any solid that has an ordered chemical structure. This means that its parts are arranged in a precisely ordered pattern, like bricks in a wall.

At the heart of ice crystals, often, are aerosol particles onto which ice can form more easily than in the open air. It's a bit mysterious how this happens, though. New research shows how crystals of ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully coupled a continuous time crystal-a quantum system that oscillates ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers achieved the first experimental observation of a time rondeau crystal ...

Crystal engineering harnesses the principles of supramolecular chemistry to design and synthesise novel crystalline architectures with tailored properties. By exploiting specific intermolecular ...

Placing materials under extremely strong magnetic fields can give rise to unusual and fascinating physical phenomena or ...

When materials reach extremely small size scales, strange things begin to happen. One of those phenomena is the formation of mesocrystals. When materials reach extremely small size scales, strange ...

As the price of silicon panels has continued to come down, we’ve reached the point where they’re a small and shrinking cost of building a solar farm. That means that it might be worth spending more to ...

At the heart of clouds are ice crystals. And at the heart of ice crystals, often, are aerosol particles - dust in the atmosphere onto which ice can form more easily than in the open air. It's a bit ...