Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

Nearly 80 years after the event, trinitite still has the power to amaze.

The only well-exposed color image of the Trinity test. (Jack W. Aeby/Manhattan Project/Public Domain) We don't always get to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo chemist Jason Benedict and his team spent years developing photoswitchable crystals. Every crystal’s shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of their ...

Matter behaves strangely under extreme conditions, and often, remnants of these behaviors are left behind even when ...

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure ...

Crystal polymorphism is critically important in the fields of pharmaceuticals and materials science. For instance, a metastable polymorph of an active pharmaceutical ingredient may benefit from ...

Scientists in the US have rewritten the rules of materials discovery after creating a ...

Duplicates of crystal structures are flooding databases, implicating repositories hosting organic, inorganic, and computer-generated crystals. The issue raises questions about curation practices at ...

UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team spent years developing photoswitchable crystals. Every crystal’s shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of their molecules, but the molecules in ...