Tuesday evening, if you happened to be looking up, you may have seen some rainbow-esqe clouds high in the sky.

There are 10 primary types of clouds on Earth. Here you can learn about what they're made of, how they form and how they are classified.

Kidney stones are solid deposits of minerals that can form in the kidneys, also known as renal calculi. They can be made up of various types of crystals, with the most abundant crystal determining ...

Understanding the natural geometry of crystals has long fascinated scientists, especially when studying how materials behave at different temperatures and pressures. One major question in this area is ...

The researchers determined that colloidal crystals form through a two-step process: amorphous blobs of particles first condense before transforming into ordered crystal structures, resulting in a ...

They named the newly discovered crystal L3S4 based on its composition, but began informally calling it “Zangenite” at lab meetings, given that Zang discovered it. The name stuck.