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Crystallization
Crystallization or crystallisation is the process by which a solid forms, where the atoms or molecules are highly organized into a structure known as a crystal. Some of the ways by which crystals form are precipitating from a solution, freezing, or more rarely deposition directly from a gas.
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Space & Astronomy
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...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 23, 2015
Microbiology
This installment of “Better Know a Microbe” is all about “magnetotactic” bacteria! Bacter
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 15, 2015
Videos
It's basic science that light can be bent. Eyeglasses bend light so that images can be clearer to those don't have 20/20
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 30, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
The liquid-liquid phase separation, observed when a crystallization reagent is added to a protein resulting in liquid dr
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
SEP 09, 2015
Microbiology
Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram positive, soil-dwelling bacterium. Like all Bacillus species, it is rod-shaped an
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 31, 2015
Health & Medicine
Ice cream is a delicious cold treat that lots of people enjoy during the summer months, but its downside is that you can
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 16, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Space travel has always been about going higher, further, faster. That isn’t just a quote from superhero Captain M
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 20, 2015
Cancer
Supported by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, scientists at a new University of Pe
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 01, 2015
Earth & The Environment
When most of us think of solar energy, we think solar panels, but there's a new way to do solar. You're not likely to se
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
MAY 27, 2015
Health & Medicine
Recently a woman covered in blood ran naked down the streets of Melbourne, Orlando. She ran towards the police screaming
...
Written By:
Kareem Heslop
APR 19, 2015
Space & Astronomy
SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule brought more than just a fancy coffee machine to the International Space Station in its mo
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 14, 2015
Neuroscience
Rutgers will take the lead in a three-year study that will investigate the effectiveness of federal and state initiative
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 13, 2015
Neuroscience
In a feat that would have been unachievable only a few years ago, researchers at UC San Francisco have pulled aside the
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
APR 07, 2015
Microbiology
Insects form swarms, fish school, birds flock together. Likewise, one species of bacteria forms dynamic, living crystals
...
Written By:
Judy O'Rourke
MAR 21, 2015
Space & Astronomy
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...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 19, 2015
Neuroscience
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Written By:
Robert Woodard
MAR 17, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have created a 3-D model of a complex protein machine, ORC, which helps prepare DNA to be du
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAR 16, 2015
Microbiology
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...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAR 13, 2015
Chemistry & Physics
Researchers in Japan have created a protein that fluoresces and assembles into large crystals when placed inside a livin
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 11, 2015
Plants & Animals
Chameleons may not be the only creatures on the planet capable of shade shifting, but they're probably the best at it-pa
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
MAR 02, 2015
Space & Astronomy
Normally thought of as one of the more "boring" galaxies, J1430+1339, also known as the Tea Cup galaxy, is giving astron
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 01, 2014
Earth & The Environment
Did you know the largest snowflakes on record were 15 inches (38 cm) in diameter and 8 inches thick? Or that an average
...
JUL 18, 2014
Microbiology
UC Irvine School of Medicine researchers have learned how bacterial toxins that cause food-borne botulism are absorbed t
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider