The study suggests that both humans and chimpanzees possess a “shared cognitive predisposition” for crystals. Whenever such a ...

The crystal chimp study, published on Wednesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, was an attempt to understand what about the shimmering minerals is so attractive to the apes’ closest cousins, ...

Primates of all stripes really love their crystals. Archeologists have found the shiny rocks at dig sites dating back as long as 780,000 years ago. Although, we are still not sure if our ancestors ...

NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively ...

Sometimes, even the simplest things can set off a quantum phenomenon.

Defect-filled lead-halide perovskites rival silicon solar cells because domain walls inside the material separate and guide charges. Researchers visualized these charge-transport networks using a ...

Summit, NJ - February 7, 2026 - Cape Crystal Brands, a food-science-focused ingredient company founded by food ...

“Our system is remarkable because it’s incredibly simple,” said paper author and physicist David Grier of New York University.

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision ...

According to the team, this discovery not only advances understanding of time crystals but could also help understand natural processes like circadian rhythms.

By cooling an atom-thin magnetic material, physicists have experimentally confirmed a classic 1970s model of two-dimensional magnetism.