Crystals -- from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds -- don't always grow in a straightforward way. Researchers have now captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly structures.

Chirality refers to two versions of a structure – be that light, molecules or crystals – that are almost identical but cannot ...

This is bismuth — a natural chemical element that chemically resembles arsenic and antimony. But there’s a catch with this crystal. While bismuth occurs naturally in the Earth’s crust, the striking ...

A Shaker Kv-channel V478W mutant shows enhanced C-type inactivation with disruption of the outermost K+ site in the selectivity filter (IS1). The crystal structure of Kv1.2-2.1 bearing the ...

‘Time crystals’ created in two new types of materials. ... revealing that they had a preferred time structure. CURIOUS CRYSTAL A time crystal appears in monoammonium phosphate (shown).

"For crystal structures under high pressure, ... Depending on the type of approximation used, the predictions can vary greatly and avoiding approximations is a typical challenge.

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 ...

Scientists observe how blobs form crystals and discover a new crystal type Meet “Zangenite,” a hollow crystal structure named after the NYU grad student who found it ...