Here’s an exercise for you: type “crystals” into your favorite search engine and see what you get. If you’re anything like us, you’ll get a bunch of pseudoscientific posts about the healing power of ...

When we talk about crystals around here, we’re generally talking about the quartz variety used to make oscillators more stable, or perhaps ruby crystals used to make a laser. We hardly ever talk about ...

I bet that you didn’t know that the American Crystallographic Association was based in Buffalo. I didn’t until I saw that University at Buffalo researcher Jason Benedict was promoting the United ...

Be it in physics, metallurgy, gemology or engineering, the applications of crystals are very broad. A research team has now developed a new method to assemble large, periodic crystals. Crystals are ...

The idea is so simple you wonder why no one thought of it before. Crystals growing near the bottom of a beaker are subject to convection, but it is much quieter near the top of the beaker. In that ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — From chocolate to snowflakes to salt, crystals are everywhere in our daily lives. This fall, kids and teens across the country can grow their own big, sparkly crystals as part of the U ...