More than just beautiful adornments, gemstones have been revered for centuries for their purported metaphysical properties, ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University ...

One longstanding problem has sidelined life-saving drugs, stalled next-generation batteries, and kept archaeologists from ...

For more than a century, scientists have relied on crystallography—analyzing X-ray diffraction patterns—to uncover ...