Researchers have successfully grown platinum crystals in liquid metal, using a powerful X-ray technique giving rare insight ...

Researchers have successfully grown platinum crystals in liquid metal, using a powerful X-ray technique giving rare insight into how these delicate crystals form and grow.

If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you'll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the ...

For the first time, scientists have watched metal crystals take shape inside a pool of molten metal, capturing a process that ...

Crystals grown on the International Space Station could be used by researchers back on Earth to develop new drugs to help fight disease. To explore this further, NASA will soon conduct a series of ...

I bet that you didn’t know that the American Crystallographic Association was based in Buffalo. I didn’t until I saw that University at Buffalo researcher Jason Benedict was promoting the United ...

Machine learning could help grow high-quality single crystals by predicting whether a particular crystal can be successfully grown under given experimental conditions. The approach could be an ...

The idea is so simple you wonder why no one thought of it before. Crystals growing near the bottom of a beaker are subject to convection, but it is much quieter near the top of the beaker. In that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Crystals of proteins that could be useful in medical research can be grown bigger and better in ...