In some laboratories, a clear, oily liquid is treated less like a reagent and more like contraband, locked away behind blast doors and handled with rituals that look closer to bomb disposal than bench ...

A team of researchers at UCLA has reported an unexpected twist in a condition long treated as a crystal chemistry problem. In samples of the most common kidney stone, they found bacteria living inside ...

North Carolina is expected to see some more of the white stuff this weekend. Here's how it is formed and if could ever be too ...

Researchers from the labs of Professors Vinayak Dravid and Omar Farha developed a high-resolution approach to map ...

A mineral discovery and new drilling method could soon upend the entire global economy and provide the US with trillions of ...

This week’s report examines how quantum computing, nanofabrication, and precision measurement are laying the groundwork for industrial adoption.

Cheap, printable photovoltaics gain a protective step that survives thermal stress during fabrication—vital to scale clean power in harsh climates.

A Chinese research team has successfully developed ammonium fluorooxoborate (ABF), a high-performance nonlinear optical crystal designed for vacuum ultraviolet light (VUV) generation. The new material ...

A new study suggests that crystal defects in diamond may hold the key to scalable quantum interconnects. Connecting large ...

With an image from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA finds clues outside the solar system that explain crystals born in ...

Snow looks white in the way salt, sugar, or crushed ice looks white. Obvious at first glance. Almost boring. But if you stop and think about it for a .

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...