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Dickie Bird, umpire whose eccentricities endeared him to the nation and to cricket fans everywhere ...

Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from Earth's movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results ...

Synthetic diamond research examines organic molecular interactions under the microscope. Scientists have long developed ...

Researchers in Vienna have discovered something remarkable: crystals that don’t form in space, like diamonds or salt, but in ...

Rice University researchers used a focused electron beam to pattern device functions with submicron precision directly into ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

Inside every pink bottle of Pepto-Bismol hides a secret — real bismuth metal. With the right process, it can be extracted and grown into stunning crystals that look like they belong on another planet.

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