An out of this world experiment to grow large-volume protein crystals aboard the International Space Station has proven successful. These sorts of crystals, which may be used in everything from basic ...

If you dissolve sugar in hot water and then cool it down, you'll see pure sugar crystals form while impurities stay in the liquid. You can even watch the beautiful sugar crystals slowly grow in the ...

Researchers in China and Korea have grown large-scale single-crystal monolayers of a two-dimensional material, tungsten disulphide (WS 2), for the first time. The crystals, which were grown on a ...

"The structure or atomic arrangement of gold crystals of this size has never been studied before and we have a unique opportunity to do so," – John Rakovan The world's largest single crystals of gold ...

Controlling the size, shape and crystallographic orientation of single crystals is vital to exploit the desired properties. A new method to grow single crystals and simultaneously control their growth ...

Seven feet tall and encrusted with lavender spikes throughout its craggy interior, the 1-ton amethyst throne required five men to muscle it through the double doors of gem shop Crystalarium. It’s not ...

Large and perfect crystals are desirable for traditional structure determination because they yield a strong signal over background. In reality, crystals of biological material are rarely perfect. In ...

In today's video I want to show you how to grow large crystals from 3 different chemicals: potassium ferrocyanide, copper sulfate, and potassium alum. All you need is to follow the instructions from ...

One way to make bigger and better perovskite solar cells could be making bigger and better perovskite crystals, according to three new studies. Perovskite materials are inexpensive, easy to synthesize ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Discovered in 1999 during mining operations in the Mina Rica (the ...