UNESCO has declared 2014 to be the International Year of Crystallography.

In 1676, Danish astronomer Ole Rømer predicted that an eclipse of one of Jupiter’s moons would occur ten minutes later than expected. How did he know?

August 27th marked the birthday of Osamu Shimomura, the organic chemist who discovered green fluorescent protein in 1962. ...

Plastic in the ocean has created an entirely new kind of rock: plastiglomerate.