Chimpanzees consistently choose crystals over ordinary rocks, suggesting a curiosity that may echo early humans.

Six thousand eight hundred feet below the floor of an active nickel mine in northern Ontario, something has gone extremely cold. Not cold in the way of a walk-in freezer, or a liquid nitrogen tank, ...

NASA once sent over 2,000 jellyfish into space to study how gravity affects biological development. The unusual experiment ...

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Most materials, especially metals and ceramics, are crystals. Their atoms are arranged in three-dimensional lattices that repeat the same exact pattern, over and over again. But there's a well-known ...

At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or ...

Electrons are tiny and constantly in motion. How they behave in a crystal lattice determines key material properties: electrical conductivity, magnetism, or novel quantum effects. Anyone aiming to ...

Chimpanzees can pick out crystals from a pile of ordinary rocks, handle them with visible care, and even hold them up to peer through like tiny windows, according to a peer-reviewed study that tested ...

Researchers studying Mars uncovered something unusual hiding inside ancient Martian rocks: a new form of matter we’ve never seen ...

Fungi may be the real-life superheroes of the natural world. Fungi are truly weird and impressive—they can live anywhere, be ...

Researchers developed a method that gradually adds and removes atoms in simulations, enabling realistic modeling of crystal defects that affect material strength.

In the early 1990s, NASA launched thousands of baby jellyfish into space. Not just a few specimens in a lab container, but about 2,500 tiny jellyfish polyps, sealed in bags of artificial seawater and ...