Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly ...

Pegmatite is a type of igneous rock characterized by its large crystal sizes, which can range from one centimeter to several ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

Researchers in Vienna have discovered something remarkable: crystals that don’t form in space, like diamonds or salt, but in ...

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal ...