In a series of experiments and simulations, the researchers showed that by adjusting light intensity, timing, and spatial patterns, they can trigger crystals to form or melt on demand, decide where ...

Researchers at NYU have developed a way to use light to precisely direct how microscopic particles assemble into crystals. The findings, published today (February 24) in the Cell Press journal Chem, ...

This experiment set out to recreate a modern fruit taffy similar to Starburst using only tools and materials made from scratch. Instead of refined store-bought sugar, the process begins with ...

The 2026 Priestley Medalist and Nobel laureate struggled with finding her way through school before achieving the greatest feats in science ...

From table salt to snowflakes, and from gemstones to diamonds—we encounter crystals everywhere in daily life, usually cubic (table salt) or hexagonal (snowflakes). Researchers from Noushine ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds—structures ...

An image with three panels, all tinted green. In one panel, a woman wearing protective clothing, goggles, gloves, and hair covering holds a clipboard in one arm and reaches with the other toward a ...

What is the National Crystallization Center? The National Crystallization Center at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute in Buffalo, New York, is a facility that is used to identify ...

The prize was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of an architecture that some chemists compare with a molecular sponge. By Alexa Robles-Gil and Ali Watkins ...