From water bodies to reflective surfaces and transparent stones, crystal balls have come a long way, and so is crystal ball reading. But with the many service providers online, where do you go for ...

Physicists in Hong Kong have used tiny spheres to simulate what happens when a crystalline solid starts to melt. Instead of seeing the emergence of crystalline defects during the melting process, the ...

A team of physicists at Université Paris-Saclay has, for the first time, observed spontaneous quasi-crystal self-assembly. The observation occurred during an experiment they were conducting with tiny ...

Sorcerers have long gazed into crystal balls to conjure up information. Chemists are also getting in on the act, using porous crystals to trap unstable reaction intermediates and to reveal their ...