Pyrite is often dismissed as “fool’s gold” but this mineral creates some of the most stunning crystals in nature. Walk into ...

Depending on how the atoms are arranged within materials, the resulted density and structure can be entirely different. For example, calcite is a mineral with a trigonal crystal structure and it is ...

Oregon State University pigment researchers are using a rare mineral discovered in Norway more than a century ago as a road ...

Dec 28, 2020: Shapeshifting crystals - Varying stability in different forms of gallium selenide monolayers (Nanowerk News) The gallium selenide monolayer has been recently discovered to have an ...

This morning Hitachi demonstrated its ability to encode data onto what it calls "quartz glass". Data etched into the material should last 100 million years, the company ...