Cornell researchers have developed a two-phase liquid crystal system that can rapidly change—and hold—its shape, transforming from a transparent thin liquid film to an opaque emulsion, and then back ...

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By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered ...

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In a groundbreaking discovery, a 2.35-billion-year-old lunar meteorite found in Africa in 2023 has unveiled fresh insights ...

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In the growing fine minerals market, such crystalline gold specimens often sell for far more than the value of the gold by ...

Southern Arizona has numerous sites known for their pyroxene minerals, from Twin Buttes south of Tucson, to Ajo, to the Chiricahua, Santa Rita and Patagonia mountain ranges.

This is calcium carbonate. So is this. And this, and this, and all of these. So, how does the same compound form so many wildly different crystal structures with wildly different properties? It's one ...