In late 2021, science journalist Maya Wei-Haas was sent a fake “National Geographic healing crystal” Advent calendar by her mother, who didn’t realize it was a knockoff.

Researchers led by Genki Kobayashi at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan have discovered a way to max out ...

The fundamental challenge has been that creating photonic time crystals required materials to change their optical properties by nearly 100% – a feat that would demand enormous amounts of energy.

Time crystals form a repeating pattern by "flipping" between two atomic states precisely on the clock. Those properties could be useful for silicon chips, fiber optics, and much more.

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. "A liquid crystal source of photon pairs." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 14 June 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 06 / 240614141916.htm>.

Researchers unveil a chemistry playbook to turn stubborn MAX phases into tunable 2D materials, blending MXene and ...

A space-time crystal Date: February 24, 2021 Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Summary: A research team has succeeded in creating a micrometer-sized space-time crystal consisting of magnons at room ...

More information: Katherine A. Parrish et al, Differential absorption of circularly polarized light by a centrosymmetric crystal, Science (2025).

Do Crystals Really Have Magical Healing Powers? Here’s What the Science Says Believers claim crystals act upon your body’s “energy field,” but it’s questionable if such a thing even exists.

His conclusion: the pressure collapses the water crystals, packing the molecules into a structureless mass. Only then does the water behave like the “classical liquid” it seems to be.

Although the market for diamonds has seen a decline during the pandemic, “near-gemstones” (crystals and minerals) have maintained their appeal among consumers, making it a $1 billion business.