While classical theories of how crystals form and grow have been long established for a range of materials, they provide an ...

From stars to needles to amorphous globs, scientists are demystifying a snowflake’s complex construction, showing how factors ...

More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure—have been found on Earth. They are formed of simple ...

I’m going to use the good old Oxford English dictionary as the standard definition of these words: Crystal: A piece of a homogeneous solid substance having a natural geometrically regular form ...

Neither of these were completely saturated, so no crystals formed, even after two weeks! Crystal creation doesn't always go to plan, which can be really frustrating! But fear not, we've put ...

One major question is how the crystals formed. “There’s no reason to expect pure sulfur in this specific region, so we’re pretty surprised,” says JPL spokesperson Andrew Good over email.

“In these conditions, solid crystals can form directly from gas, without going through a liquid phase first.” On Earth, with a lower average surface temperature, water vapor can change ...