Crystal formation follows a two-step process: messy, shapeless clumps of particles, or amorphous blobs, first come together ...

In exploring how crystals form, researchers came across an unusual, rod-shaped crystal that hadn't been identified before.

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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 to rotate the sample under his microscope to show ...

Salt's atoms connect to make cubes, and those microscopic ... for atoms to form repeating crystal patterns. Quasicrystals don't fit into any of them. Their unique shape lets them form a pattern ...