On this day in 2018, students at Melbourn Village College enjoyed exciting activities for British Science Week.

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In an attempt to understand our own fascination with the shiny minerals, researchers gave some to chimps. A chimp named Toti attentively observes a quartz crystal at a rehabilitation facility in Spain ...

NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively turning illumination into a tool for shaping matter. By adding light-sensitive ...

Pepto-Bismol contains bismuth subsalicylate, and it's possible to extract the bismuth from it and use it to grow metal crystals. British factory lines face shutdown within weeks Health warning as ...

I never thought I'd stoop so low as to cook crystals in the oven... HAHA! Just kidding, this is just a way to get these calcite crystals looking GOOD! These are the calcite crystals I found in my most ...

Most materials, especially metals and ceramics, are crystals. Their atoms are arranged in three-dimensional lattices that repeat the same exact pattern, over and over again. But there's a well-known ...

A deep dive into the iconic late-night block that shaped the tastes of a bleary-eyed, post-ironic generation of comedy fans.

Twisting atomically thin magnetic layers does more than reshape their electronics—it can create giant, topological magnetic textures. In chromium triiodide, researchers observed skyrmion-like patterns ...

The more scientists learn about “simple” things, the less simple they seem. Water, for instance, was long considered a simple mass of independent molecules jostling one another aimlessly, like marbles ...

Manchester United moved into third place in the Premier League after coming from behind to beat Crystal Palace at Old Trafford. Much like in their previous meeting with Palace this season, United fell ...

Join Grace Webb, Matt Green and awesome astronaut Tim Peake on a fact-finding mission to make Moon: The Movie, starring the one and only moon from Horrible Science! Show more Help turn the moon from ...