Recently, he made Borax crystals, with uncharacteristic success: But science is always more fun when you understand the why along with the how. So here’s the why: Making crystals, be they of ...

Borax makes it easy for your kids to experiment and grow crystals of their very own! Let’s experiment for Valentine’s Day and make heart crystals Gather your kids around the table for this fun ...

Wigner crystals are states of matter in which electrons ... the ‘tunnelling’ of electrons between the tip and the sample under an applied voltage, one can extract the density of states ...

The researchers dubbed the individual cells "microscopic tornadoes" for their rapid rotation, which both forms the crystals by ... culture of Thiovulum under a microscope, this beautiful structure ...

Unlike water, they are fluids that have some crystal symmetry properties. This combination of fluidity and structure results in mesmerizing visuals under a polarizing optical microscope.

I'll be looking at a volcano from up close, so up close that you need a microscope to see these details ... where we find a large plagioclase feldspar crystal apparently inter grown with a ...

That's when the borax starts to form crystals on the pipe cleaner! The more borax that comes out of the solution, the larger the crystals you will see.

After developing some methods for producing the exact crystal shapes that he wanted he placed the dyes in microscope slides and let them dry out and crystalize from anywhere from a few hours to a ...