Crystals might look simple, but their growth tells a far more complex and fascinating story. From grains of salt to diamonds, ...

Scientists have discovered a metal oxide with the catchy name SrFe0.5Co0.5O2.5 (or SFCO for short) that can 'breathe', taking ...

There’s a saying in mine country, the kind that sometimes shows up on bumper stickers: “If it can’t be grown, it has to be mined.” Before mining can ever start, though, there has to be ore in the ...

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new ...

Imagine a clock that doesn't have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, ...

Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists once believed.

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have unveiled “gold quantum needles,” a newly discovered nanocluster structure formed ...

This study reveals how guanidinium thiocyanate optimizes perovskite crystallization, boosting solar cell performance and ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created the first time crystal that humans can actually see, using liquid crystals that swirl into never-ending patterns when illuminated by light ...

In conventional, top-down syntheses, nanodiamonds are obtained by converting carbon sources under extreme conditions – ...

Researchers Shinjiro Takano, Yuya Hamasaki, and Tatsuya Tsukuda of the University of Tokyo have successfully visualized the ...