Crystals might look simple, but their growth tells a far more complex and fascinating story. From grains of salt to diamonds, ...

Glass cells filled with liquid crystals respond to light to make the first time crystals visible to the naked eye, even if ...

Scientists have redefined the state-of-the-art in modeling and predicting the free energy of crystals. Their work shows that crystal form stability under real-world temperature and humidity conditions ...

A team at CU Boulder has made a curious state of matter in which particles move constantly—like a clock with hands and gears ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have created the first time crystal that humans can actually see, using liquid crystals that swirl into never-ending patterns when illuminated by light ...

Photographer Justin Zoll shoots stunning landscapes—without setting foot outside. Instead he peers through a secondhand Olympus BH2 microscope into a hidden world of psychedelic crystal vistas. Zoll ...

Researchers at Diamond Light Source have used advanced imaging to look at microscopic crystals, called nanolites, to see what ...