Inside a lab in South Korea, a rainbow-colored glint caught the eye of a graduate student. This gleam is the product of ...

The rest of the process happens more or less naturally, as crystals begin to form in the saturated solution. And boy, did they grow — long, prismatic lime-green crystals, with a beautiful ...

Fifteen of the world’s top Lego builders have been invited to showcase their unique creations at the annual Masterpiece ...

Polishing the crystals to make them optically cleaner would be a good next step, as would perhaps growing even larger crystals.

When it comes to snow flakes, you may have heard that no two snow flakes are alike. In nature that especially true. But how can that be when billions of flakes ...

“Growing crystals means they can take a break from their screens and do an exciting activity that’s going to teach them something about crystals and crystal growth. [Anyone] can do this as a ...

The man who paved the way for growing the best crystals was Gordon Teal. He didn't work in Shockley's group, but he kept tabs on what was going on. He'd even been asked to provide crystals for the ...

Two attempts of growing crystals in sugar solutions. Neither of these were completely saturated, so no crystals formed, even after two weeks! Crystal creation doesn't always go to plan ...

The largest snow crystal ever measured was 10 millimetres across, discovered by Kenneth Libbrecht, who photographed the record-breaker in Ontario, Canada, in December 2003. Libbrecht is a ...

The team win the Stephanie L Kwolek Award for ‘CrystalGrower’, which allows a research team to grow any crystal virtually on their laptop, with both crystal habits and nanoscopic surface topography of ...