For more than two decades, the International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying protein crystals. In the early days of microgravity research, scientists discovered that ...

Click to open image viewer. Syringes such as this one were used in protein crystal growth experiments on the Space Shuttle. Astronauts activated experiments by injecting a solution into a growth cell ...

Now, in a new study appearing in Frontiers in Psychology, scientists in Spain have investigated which characteristics of crystals may have made them so fascinating to our ancestors. They designed ...

MIT physicists have synthesized a new family of bulk crystals whose electrons behave as though they move in an effectively four-dimensional “superspace,” rather than being fully described by the three ...

What happens when you put real calcite crystals in the oven? That simple question turns into a surprisingly satisfying experiment as heat is used to test what these crystals can handle and how they ...

Protein crystals form in microgravity in the space station’s Kibo Module. Credits: JAXA For more than two decades, the International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying ...