Crystals might look simple, but their growth tells a far more complex and fascinating story. From grains of salt to diamonds, crystals form when particles lock into repeating patterns. For many years, ...

Developing and manufacturing effective, safe, reliable new drugs or critical new materials for use in semiconductors or applications involving dangerous materials requires many layers of knowledge.

The ability to predict crystal structures is a key part of the design of new materials. New research shows that a mathematical algorithm can guarantee to predict the structure of any material just ...

Research suggests some metals’ semicore electrons may be more active on Earth’s surface than previously thought.

The new method can determine crystal structures underlying experimental data thus far difficult to analyze. A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has ...

Despite being one of the most familiar substances on Earth, water holds many secrets that scientists are still working to ...

Crystal structure of Na2He, resembling a three-dimensional checkerboard. The purple spheres represent sodium atoms, which are inside the green cubes that represent helium atoms. The red regions inside ...

Physicists have unveiled a new type of time crystal that is governed by quantum behavior that conflicts with classical models ...

Research suggests some metals’ semicore electrons may be more active on Earth’s surface than previously thought.