What happens when you put real calcite crystals in the oven? That simple question turns into a surprisingly satisfying ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Information gleaned from space experiments is enabling a Purdue University engineering professor and his graduate students to design new software aimed at manufacturing superior ...

Some smaller crystals were never recovered at all. The findings, published March 3, 2026 in the journal Frontiers in ...

Click to open image viewer. Syringes such as this one were used in protein crystal growth experiments on the Space Shuttle. Astronauts activated experiments by injecting a solution into a growth cell ...

What would a chimpanzee do if you handed it a glittering quartz crystal? Apparently, the same thing many of us would—hold ...

"The way they ‘studied' it there, turning it over to observe it from different angles, was amazing." ...

Protein crystals form in microgravity in the space station’s Kibo Module. Credits: JAXA For more than two decades, the International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying ...

New time crystal achievement could help bridge classical and quantum physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Indium Antimonide crystal sample ...

Ricky Arnold steadies his hand. He job is to insert 10 microliters of fluid into a microplate and watch as crystals grow. Ten microliters amount to a single droplet from his pipette, so Arnold must be ...