New research by scientists at the University of Toronto and the Structural Genomics Consortium has deepened our understanding ...

In solar science, a little structural harmony goes a long way. By finding the atomic equivalent of a perfect handshake ...

Sphalerite is a very cool mineral. It is a beautiful, complex and diverse zinc sulfide (ZnS) mineral that also hosts a ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

From the delicate patterns of snowflakes to the robust structure of diamonds, crystals are all around us. For a long time, scientists believed their growth followed a predictable path. But now, ...

The challenge, however, is that this technique only works well when researchers have large, pure crystals. When they have to settle for a powder of minuscule pieces — called nanocrystals — the method ...

Chemistry Department, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, U.K. Bio-Techne (Tocris), The Watkins Building, Atlantic Road, Avonmouth ...

The algorithm achieved world-leading performance in crystal structure prediction benchmarks. Crystal structure prediction seeks to identify the stable or metastable crystal structures for any ...

As the clouds clear on computational crystal structure prediction, is the technique ready to empower mainstream materials research? James Mitchell Crow reports Importance and challenges: CSP is ...

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan ...