Snow, ice and winter lights aren’t the only things that sparkle during the holiday season in Western New York. At this time each year, students in Jeff Yap’s science class at Williamsville South High ...

NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively ...

Miners drilling through limestone in Chihuahua, Mexico, broke into an extraordinary chamber in 2000 and found something that defied geological expectations: gypsum crystals taller than telephone poles ...

Crystals such as diamonds are renowned for their vibrant colors and unique geometries. But to a chemist, their beauty transcends what we can see with the naked eye. With special equipment, they are ...

In a surprising twist, researchers have identified crystals that are symmetrical but nevertheless absorb light as if they were chiral (Science 2025, DOI: 10.1126/science.adr5478). The discovery ...

Inclusion crystals and host–guest chemistry represent a dynamic field of research that explores the ability of crystalline materials to incorporate guest molecules through non‐covalent interactions.

Teresa Ubide works for The University of Queensland. She receives funding from the Australian Research Council and infrastructure funding from AuScope NCRIS. Imagine you had a crystal ball that ...

A discovery about Saturn's moon Titan has challenged what scientists thought was a basic rule of chemistry. There, in the extreme cold, some supposedly fundamentally incompatible molecules may combine ...