Chemists are investigating the bizarre properties of certain materials that could be used to develop oxygen safety systems ...

Andrew Iams saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope. He was examining a sliver of a new aluminum ...

The quasicrystals found in this study form the corners of 20-sided shape called an icosahedron. To prove that he found an icosahedron, Andrew Iams had ...

Each mineral type has a specific crystal structure, so they will show up differently ... That means we can identify minerals using how they appear in doubly polarized light under a microscope!

To confirm they had a quasicrystal, Iams had to carefully rotate the crystal under the microscope and show that it also had threefold symmetry and twofold symmetry from two different angles.

In 2017, a team at HRL Laboratories, based in California, and UC Santa Barbara discovered a high-strength aluminum alloy that ...