When the atomic lattice in a rare-earth crystal gets animated with a corkscrew-shaped vibration called a chiral phonon, the crystal becomes a magnet.

Nanoengineers have used to DNA to create a quasicrystal, a scientifically intriguing and technologically promising material structure.

Researchers have created the heaviest Schrödinger cat to date by putting a crystal in a superposition of two oscillation states.

A breakthrough in visualization supports efforts to get every bit of utility out of perovskite-based materials.

Researchers have developed a new method that can predict the shapes of asymmetrical crystals. It's an algebraic sleight-of-hand.

A blueprint for designing new materials using difficult combinations of nanocrystals could lead to previously impossible materials.

In some cooling magmas, crystals can grow up to a yard in just one day, according to a new study.

Observations let researchers "see" when and how three individual water molecules left a crystalline sponge as it dried out.

Titanium dioxide crystals that "blink" may benefit quantum computers or the creation of fuels from carbon dioxide, say researchers.

Scientists can manipulate curium, one of the heaviest known elements, to a greater degree than previously thought.