Whether you know it or not, you encounter crystals in your everyday life quite regularly. Table salt, sugar and snowflakes are classified as types of crystals, as are many gemstones—including amethyst ...

A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that mirror the complex structures of some solid crystals—a major step forward in building flowing materials that ...

New kinds of liquid crystals resemble gypsum or lazulite crystals -- except that they flow like fluids. A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that ...