Almost every month, Emory University physicist Justin Burton and his graduate students step out of the lab and bring loud, ...

Scientists have revealed something within a trinitite crystal formed during a 1945 nuclear blast that has never been seen ...

The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything ...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

A new UC Davis study shows that halide perovskite crystals reversibly change shape when hit with laser light. As perovskites are also semiconductors, this opens the possibility of new types of ...

Researchers dubbed one experiment involving a roughly one-foot-tall crystal "The Monolith" in honor of Stanley Kubrick's iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Aden Kahr Humans have long been fascinated ...

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In an attempt to understand our own fascination with the shiny minerals, researchers gave some to chimps. A chimp named Toti attentively observes a quartz crystal at a rehabilitation facility in Spain ...

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober has unveiled details of his Netflix series. Rober, who has over 73M YouTube subscribers, struck a deal with the streamer last year, becoming the latest creator to jump ...

Time crystals, a collection of particles that "tick"—or move back and forth in repeating cycles—were first theorized and then discovered about a decade ago. While scientists have yet to create ...

Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating patterns. The effect comes from mixing two nearly identical compounds ...