Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

Atomic bomb explosions create extreme conditions. Italian researchers have discovered an unusual material created by them.

Researchers have devised a mathematical approach to predict the structures of crystals -- a critical step in developing many medicines and electronic devices -- in a matter of hours using only a ...

The new method can determine crystal structures underlying experimental data thus far difficult to analyze. A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has ...