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Sphalerite is a very cool mineral. It is a beautiful, complex and diverse zinc sulfide (ZnS) mineral that also hosts a ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

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The challenge, however, is that this technique only works well when researchers have large, pure crystals. When they have to settle for a powder of minuscule pieces — called nanocrystals — the method ...

To apply the technique to crystallography, the scientists began with a dataset of 40,000 crystal structures and jumbled the atomic positions until they were indistinguishable from random placement.

By understanding the relationships between the crystal structures and the final properties, this research seeks to inform the rational design of HAL multicomponent drugs, providing a framework for ...

Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan Department of Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Graduate School of Environmental ...

The algorithm achieved world-leading performance in crystal structure prediction benchmarks. Crystal structure prediction seeks to identify the stable or metastable crystal structures for any ...