Don’t you just love looking at crystals? If you’re just getting started in learning about them, it’s an expansive world to ...

Scientists have discovered a way to use single missing atoms in crystals as memory cells, packing terabytes of data into a ...

There is a big problem with quantum technology—it's tiny. The distinctive properties that exist at the subatomic scale ...

Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

Rubies and emeralds have the colors they do because, like many substances, they absorb some colors of light. Most visible light, like sunlight, is composed of all the colors of the rainbow: red, ...

From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an "on" and an "off" state, it can be used ...

A crystal used in the study charges under UV light. The process created by the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering Zhong Lab could be used with a variety of materials, ...