A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: Space and time can form a kind of "crystal" that may turn into a black hole. The results are described in Physical ...

A new chip-making technique exploits a material's crystal structure to create nanoscale patterns at room temperature directly onto hard materials used in devices, including silica. The method could ...

A team of chemists at the University of Iowa has developed a light-activated crystal ...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure ...

A strange scarlet rock was created during the world's first nuclear explosion in 1945, and scientists have now uncovered what makes it so special.

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...

An unusual crystal created by America’s first nuclear bomb test could help scientists understand a structure needed for ...

The Trinity test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, generated the glassy substance known as trinitite when sand and surrounding ...