“Our system is remarkable because it’s incredibly simple,” said paper author and physicist David Grier of New York University ...

FOUR months today in Dallas, England start their World Cup campaign against Croatia. We should just be grateful that they are not jetting off today — because the majority of boss Thomas Tuchel’s ...

Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals—regular, repeating atomic ...

Every crystal's shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of its molecules, but the molecules in photoswitchable crystals ...

Once considered an oddity of quantum physics, time crystals could be a good building block for accurate clocks and sensors, ...

A strange form of matter called a time crystal has fascinated physicists for about a decade. These systems move in repeating ...

This hunt started with fossil shells but turned into something unexpected. Inside several fossils were calcite crystals formed over thousands of years. Florida geology created the perfect conditions ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

When referred to as a gas, it means a volatile has transitioned into the vapor phase. The most common gases (or vapor phase volatiles) emitted at the surface are water (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and ...

We show how this "cosmic clock" uncovers the evolution of rivers, coasts and habitats.

Cold fronts in the winter can bring a variety of precipitation, anything from a cold rainfall all the way to snow! All precipitation starts the same, as ice crystals in the upper-levels of the ...

The answer depends on the type of fish and how it’s stored.