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. Traditionally, this process relies on ...

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 ...

Beryl’s crystal structure is more complicated than corundum’s because of the additional elements in the formula, but each aluminum ion is again surrounded by six oxygen ions.

Despite the ubiquity of molecular crystals in many everyday products, the ability to predict their three-dimensional structures remains a challenge, especially if a compound can crystallize into ...

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 ...

Image via Wiki Commons. At its core, a crystal is a solid material whose constituents, such as atoms, molecules, or ions, are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure.

For example, if you started on a red tile and moved right, left, up, or down, lay a blue tile on your new location. When you move one step diagonally, you must place a tile with a similar color to the ...

In 17 days, the AI system was able to identify 2.2 million potentially stable new inorganic crystal structures, over 700 of which have already been experimentally validated.