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Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals—regular, repeating atomic ...

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Watching proteins move as they drive the chemical reactions that sustain life is one of the grand challenges of modern ...

A study using EBSD and TEM imaging found that “b” dislocations in olivine occur in roughly 17% of analyzed crystals. These ...

Physicists have finally watched positronium, a short‑lived atom made of an electron and its antimatter twin, behave like a rippling quantum wave instead of a tiny billiard ball. In a set of ...

A historic experiment has shattered the legendary "nobility" of gold, revealing a new chemical reality that changes everything we know about the universe.

A new study led by the University of Liverpool examined olivine to better understand how it deforms. The researchers were surprised to find that about 17% of the crystals showed evidence of ...

Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals - regular, repeating atomic structures that fit together ...

With the terahertz scope, the team observed a frictionless “superfluid” of superconducting electrons that were collectively ...