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 ...

In the video, the breeze creates soft waves on the water, causing the ice crystals to shine and move gracefully.

Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) report that an exotic quantum phenomenon appears under conditions where it would not normally ...

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

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

Liquid crystals occupy a fascinating state of matter that bridges the fluidity of liquids and the long-range order of crystalline solids. These materials, characterised by their mesomorphic properties ...

Scientists have for the first time recorded complicated structures in ice formed by freezing liquid water at the nanoscale.

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

Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from Earth's movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results ...