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Watch A Tardigrade Frolicking In The Snow And A Cell With A Prehensile "Trunk" As This Year's Nikon Small World In Motion Video WinnersA beautiful rainbow colored sea slug on a black background with pink edges.

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Watch A Tardigrade Frolicking In The Snow And A Cell With A Prehensile "Trunk" As This Year's Nikon Small World In Motion Video WinnersA beautiful rainbow colored sea slug on a black background with pink edges.
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Watch A Tardigrade Frolicking In The Snow And A Cell With A Prehensile "Trunk" As This Year's Nikon Small World In Motion Video Winners

clock-iconSeptember 16, 2026

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There's A Cave In North America Where Crystals Grow Up To 11.4 Meters – But Entering Is Extremely DangerousThe silhouette of a human is dwarfed by the towering crystals.

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There's A Cave In North America Where Crystals Grow Up To 11.4 Meters – But Entering Is Extremely DangerousThe silhouette of a human is dwarfed by the towering crystals.
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There's A Cave In North America Where Crystals Grow Up To 11.4 Meters – But Entering Is Extremely Dangerous

clock-iconMay 29, 2026

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The World’s Oldest Crystals Are 4.4 Billion Years Old And Contain Traces Of Something Even OlderA Jack Hills zircon around 200 micrometers across. Not only are these the oldest surviving crystals on the planet, they contain clues to what was there even before them.

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The World’s Oldest Crystals Are 4.4 Billion Years Old And Contain Traces Of Something Even OlderA Jack Hills zircon around 200 micrometers across. Not only are these the oldest surviving crystals on the planet, they contain clues to what was there even before them.
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The World’s Oldest Crystals Are 4.4 Billion Years Old And Contain Traces Of Something Even Older

clock-iconMay 21, 2026

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A Volcano That Slept For 100,000 Years Never Actually Went Extinct, Suggesting Other Quiet Volcanoes Could Be More Dangerous Than We ThoughtThe youngest eruption of the Methana volcano (brown) flowing into the sea, with limestone in the background.

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A Volcano That Slept For 100,000 Years Never Actually Went Extinct, Suggesting Other Quiet Volcanoes Could Be More Dangerous Than We ThoughtThe youngest eruption of the Methana volcano (brown) flowing into the sea, with limestone in the background.
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A Volcano That Slept For 100,000 Years Never Actually Went Extinct, Suggesting Other Quiet Volcanoes Could Be More Dangerous Than We Thought

clock-iconMay 20, 2026

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Crystal Unknown To Science Formed In Trinity Nuclear Test Is “Far Beyond The Limits Of Conventional Synthesis"the beginning of the mushroom cloud from the trinity explosion

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Crystal Unknown To Science Formed In Trinity Nuclear Test Is “Far Beyond The Limits Of Conventional Synthesis"the beginning of the mushroom cloud from the trinity explosion
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Crystal Unknown To Science Formed In Trinity Nuclear Test Is “Far Beyond The Limits Of Conventional Synthesis"

clock-iconMay 11, 2026
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Clovis People Made Projectile Points Out Of Quartz Crystals – Possibly Because They Believed They Had Supernatural PropertiesA Clovis projectile point made of quartz crystal

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Clovis People Made Projectile Points Out Of Quartz Crystals – Possibly Because They Believed They Had Supernatural PropertiesA Clovis projectile point made of quartz crystal
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Clovis People Made Projectile Points Out Of Quartz Crystals – Possibly Because They Believed They Had Supernatural Properties

clock-iconMay 1, 2026

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Homo Erectus Made Handaxes With Fossils And Crystals As “Mediators Between Humans And The Cosmos”A Palaeolithic handaxe with a geode at its center

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Homo Erectus Made Handaxes With Fossils And Crystals As “Mediators Between Humans And The Cosmos”A Palaeolithic handaxe with a geode at its center
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Homo Erectus Made Handaxes With Fossils And Crystals As “Mediators Between Humans And The Cosmos”

clock-iconApril 3, 2026

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Humans Have Been Fascinated With Crystals For 800,000 Years – We May Now Know WhyChimpanzee holding quartz crystal

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Humans Have Been Fascinated With Crystals For 800,000 Years – We May Now Know WhyChimpanzee holding quartz crystal
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Humans Have Been Fascinated With Crystals For 800,000 Years – We May Now Know Why

clock-iconMarch 4, 2026
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“It’s An Incredible Feeling”: Salty Air Bubbles In 1.4-Billion-Year-Old Crystals Reveal Secrets Of Earth’s Early AtmosphereMicroscopic image of fluid inclusions in 1.4-billion-year-old halite crystals, which preserve ancient air and brine.

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“It’s An Incredible Feeling”: Salty Air Bubbles In 1.4-Billion-Year-Old Crystals Reveal Secrets Of Earth’s Early AtmosphereMicroscopic image of fluid inclusions in 1.4-billion-year-old halite crystals, which preserve ancient air and brine.
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“It’s An Incredible Feeling”: Salty Air Bubbles In 1.4-Billion-Year-Old Crystals Reveal Secrets Of Earth’s Early Atmosphere

clock-iconDecember 23, 2025
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Watch Platinum Crystals Forming In Liquid Metal Thanks To "Really Special" New Techniquea view of the liquid nugget of metal and inside thin gray crystals forming.

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Watch Platinum Crystals Forming In Liquid Metal Thanks To "Really Special" New Techniquea view of the liquid nugget of metal and inside thin gray crystals forming.
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Watch Platinum Crystals Forming In Liquid Metal Thanks To "Really Special" New Technique

clock-iconNovember 25, 2025
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Quantum Correlations Stabilize Rather Than Disrupt A New Type Of Time CrystalA laser latice holding particles in place creates a new sort of time crystal, whose repetition resembles the hands of a clock

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Quantum Correlations Stabilize Rather Than Disrupt A New Type Of Time CrystalA laser latice holding particles in place creates a new sort of time crystal, whose repetition resembles the hands of a clock
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Quantum Correlations Stabilize Rather Than Disrupt A New Type Of Time Crystal

clock-iconSeptember 24, 2025
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New "Oxygen-Breathing" Crystal Could Recharge Fuel Cells And MoreSchematic of an oxygen breathing crystal showing the way some ions move causing changes in structure when exposed to reducing gasses.

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New "Oxygen-Breathing" Crystal Could Recharge Fuel Cells And MoreSchematic of an oxygen breathing crystal showing the way some ions move causing changes in structure when exposed to reducing gasses.
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New "Oxygen-Breathing" Crystal Could Recharge Fuel Cells And More

clock-iconAugust 20, 2025
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Defying Logic: Symmetrical Crystals Can Interact With Light AsymmetricallyThis crystal may not look very impressive, but it's the difference between expectations and observations when exposed to polarized light that makes it significant.

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Defying Logic: Symmetrical Crystals Can Interact With Light AsymmetricallyThis crystal may not look very impressive, but it's the difference between expectations and observations when exposed to polarized light that makes it significant.
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Defying Logic: Symmetrical Crystals Can Interact With Light Asymmetrically

clock-iconJune 18, 2025
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Watch Groundbreaking Science In Action With Short Film "Beamtime: Crystal Hitters"A cartoon graphic of a beam of electrons hitting the top of a purple crystal

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Watch Groundbreaking Science In Action With Short Film "Beamtime: Crystal Hitters"A cartoon graphic of a beam of electrons hitting the top of a purple crystal
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Watch Groundbreaking Science In Action With Short Film "Beamtime: Crystal Hitters"

clock-iconDecember 6, 2024
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Ancient Mars Had Hot Springs Suited To Life, Meteorite Crystal ShowsA slice taken from NSWA 7034, also known as Black Beauty, an asteroid that contains crystals from many parts of Mars, including one very revealing zircon

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Ancient Mars Had Hot Springs Suited To Life, Meteorite Crystal ShowsA slice taken from NSWA 7034, also known as Black Beauty, an asteroid that contains crystals from many parts of Mars, including one very revealing zircon
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Ancient Mars Had Hot Springs Suited To Life, Meteorite Crystal Shows

clock-iconNovember 22, 2024
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