Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research reveals a hollow crystal structure and shows crystals grow in complex ways, not just step by step. (CREDIT: Unsplash) ...

A newly demonstrated link between a time crystal and a mechanical system opens a door scientists once thought closed.

For more than two decades, the International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying protein crystals. In the early days of microgravity research, scientists discovered that ...

Scientists have discovered quantum vibrations in a crystal that link heat, sound, and magnetism for the first time.

Click to open image viewer. Astronauts used this Sony video camcorder with the Thermal Enclosure System-Crystal Observation System (TES-COS) to record and observe protein crystal growth experiments ...

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 ...

Time crystals are a strange state of matter with properties that sound impossible, but they have been created. Now, German scientists have made one that lasts 10 million times longer than in previous ...

In physics, some waves behave in a surprising way: instead of spreading out and fading, they hold their shape as they travel ...