Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals—regular, repeating atomic ...

A study using EBSD and TEM imaging found that “b” dislocations in olivine occur in roughly 17% of analyzed crystals. These defects, once considered minor, may significantly influence mantle ...

A setback in growing light-responsive crystals led UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team to a novel method for mapping molecular arrangements.

A new purple-pink mineral that has a chemical composition and crystalline structure unlike any of the known 4,000 minerals has been discovered at a mining site in Western Australia, researchers report ...

Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals - regular, repeating atomic structures that fit together ...

A new study led by the University of Liverpool examined olivine to better understand how it deforms. The researchers were surprised to find that about 17% of the crystals showed evidence of ...