Is it true that two snowflakes can't be identical and if not, what are the odds? The specific number of snowflake types depends on who you ask. Photographer Wilson Alwyn Bentley took pictures of ...

Like fortune tellers who peer into a crystal ball for insight, volcanologists at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory peer into the tiny crystals contained in lava flows to learn about the magma’s ...

Weizmann Institute researchers discover how crystals are formed in the animal kingdom and show that two simple molecules can create a dizzying array of complex biological characteristics Weizmann ...

When Tasha Kitty's son Marcel Morris-Howell was turning 18, she placed a pi stone above his door. It's a circular stone with a hole in the middle. It has spiritual significance in different cultures ...

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal crystal repeat in space. Examples once existed in only complex, quantum matter, ...

Sometimes, compounds crystallize in unexpected ways. This is a problem for drug manufacturers, who need to create consistent products. Scientists are working to understand why substances take on ...