A fascinating microscopic look at copper metal crystals revealing detailed structures and natural formations you rarely see ...

Big quote: "The whole experience resembles the nerdiest acid trip since Steve Jobs took LSD." Liquid crystal displays are nothing new. In fact, the technology just turned 50-years-old this month ...

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“Most people are familiar with phase transitions like between ice and water, and water and steam,” Outram told Digital Trends. “In some materials, which are common in biological systems, there exist ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Stanford University, and Denmark Technical University have designed a cutting-edge X-ray microscope capable of directly ...

Apatite crystal under a microscope at Paul Fitzgerald’s laboratory at Syracuse University. It was extracted from a granitic rock at the Cauca River Canyon in Colombia. The linear features observed are ...

A team of New York University researchers has created a new way to visualize crystals by peering inside their structures, akin to having X-ray vision. Their new technique—which they aptly named ...

The optical characteristics of materials, such as their magnetooptical effects, birefringence, optical activities, linear and circular dichroism, are probed via the polarisation states of light ...

When a popcorn kernel heats up, water trapped inside its hard shell turns into steam, building pressure. The kernel expands until—pop!—it explodes, leaping erratically. Place some types of organic ...