The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

Crystal structure prediction seeks to identify the stable or metastable crystal structures for any given chemical compound adopted under specific conditions.

The symmetry and geometry of a crystal fundamentally determine its various physical and chemical properties. However, crystal structure prediction, including space group determination and crystal ...

Even though emeralds and rubies are very different colors, they both have the same secret ingredient in their atomic structure.

This paper presents the design of a high-efficiency spot size converter (SSC) for photonic crystal fiber (PCF) to silicon-based waveguides, utilizing composite optical waveguide structures. The SSC is ...

Researchers at NYU have developed Crystal Math, a mathematical tool that predicts molecular crystal structures in hours using a standard laptop. Unlike physics-based methods, it avoids over-prediction ...

In one dramatic example of the necessity of predicting crystal structures, scientists in the late 1990s discovered that capsules of the HIV drug ritonavir later transformed from the known crystal ...

In contrast, open cavities, such as those found in geodes, allow for the growth of well-formed, often spectacular crystal structures. Examples of crystals in geology ...