A team of Chinese scientists may have cracked the secret behind the strange Canyon Diablo diamonds. Hexagonal in form rather than cubic, the process behind how these diamonds formed has, until now, ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Researchers have discovered a gem created by a “catastrophic collision” between a dwarf planet and an asteroid. Scientists say that a 4.5-billion-year-old collision created ...

On cold, sunny days, tiny ice crystals in the atmosphere can create breathtaking displays like halos, sundogs, and light pillars.

Researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and the University of Montpellier have successfully synthesized wafer-scale hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibiting an ...

Australian National University led an international team of scientists have developed a technique to create harder hexagonal diamonds at its purest form. Using a small device called diamond anvil cell ...

Scientists have used a mix of physical and chemical properties to bend salt into hexagonal crystals for the first time ever. They formed the thin layer of crystalline salt on a substrate (foundation ...

If you've ever heard someone referred to as a "special little snowflake," the implication is that they're beautiful and precious because of all the myriad ways in which they are unique. The old saying ...

THE meaning of the hexagonal structure sometimes observed in chromium electroplates has been the subject of considerable study. The present communication is to record some observations on chromium ...

(Phys.org)—Virtually all semiconductors used in today's electronic devices are made of silicon having a cubic crystal structure, as silicon naturally crystallizes in the cubic form. In a new study, ...