Crystalline nanomaterials are valuable because their highly ordered structures give them useful properties for technologies ...

They gave quartz, calcite and other types of crystals to chimpanzees in a rehabilitation center. The apes responded with great interest, and the researchers ended up needing to trade large amounts of ...

Crystals have been found along human remains in several archeological dig sites. Primates of all stripes really love their ...

Researchers at Utrecht University have quantitatively mapped the three-dimensional structure of photonic supraparticles for the first time. Supraparticles are microscopic spheres composed of thousands ...

Miners drilling through limestone in Chihuahua, Mexico, broke into an extraordinary chamber in 2000 and found something that defied geological expectations: gypsum crystals taller than telephone poles ...

Amanda Frances says she’s living her best life, and she doesn’t care what anyone else thinks about it. As Frances made her ...

The study suggests that both humans and chimpanzees possess a “shared cognitive predisposition” for crystals. Whenever such a ...

Crystals have repeatedly been found at archaeological sites alongside Homo remains. Evidence shows that hominins have been collecting these stones for as long as 780,000 years. Yet, we know that our ...

With severe weather, many just think of thunderstorms or tornadoes. However, graupel and hail can also be present during ...

Computer simulations reveal that mesophases dramatically speed nanoparticle crystallization and improve crystal quality by ...

It’s at this point in our history that the first collection of crystals appears in the archaeological record. Discovered at ...