Owing to the many different ways atoms can be arranged within the material, ice can exist in many more forms than what’s known as ice I, the type we’re all familiar with. Scientists have actually ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don’t always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly ...

Traditional crystals are composed of extremely orderly, symmetrically arranged repeating patterns of atoms that don’t move. Recently, however, a team of physicists has proposed a type of crystal that ...