Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether you know it or not, you encounter crystals in your everyday life quite regularly. Table salt, sugar and snowflakes are ...

So far in this series, pretty much every material we’ve covered has had to undergo a significant industrial process to transform it from its natural state to a more useful product. Whether it’s the ...

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 ...

Crystals -- from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds -- don't always grow in a straightforward way. Researchers have now captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly structures. In ...

An unexpected find During these experiments, Ph.D. student Shihao Zang came across a rod-shaped crystal that he couldn't identify. To the naked eye, it looked like a crystal previously discovered in ...