Scientifically speaking, the term “crystal” refers to any solid that has an ordered chemical structure. This means that its parts are arranged in a precisely ordered pattern, like bricks in a wall.

The science pros at TKOR explain how salt crystals form from water through the process of boiling the ocean. Investigators ...

In exploring how crystals form, the researchers also came across an unusual, rod-shaped crystal that hadn’t been identified before, naming it “Zangenite” for the NYU graduate student who discovered it ...

Driven by these challenges, researchers at New York University, in collaboration with scientists at the biopharmaceutical company AbbVie, have developed a new computational tool that can quickly and ...