{"id":212726,"date":"2025-04-29T09:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-observe-how-blobs-form-crystals-and-discover-a-new-crystal-type"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:08:53","slug":"scientists-observe-how-blobs-form-crystals-and-discover-a-new-crystal-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-observe-how-blobs-form-crystals-and-discover-a-new-crystal-type","title":{"rendered":"Scientists observe how blobs form crystals and discover a new crystal type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-observe-how-blobs-form-crystals-and-discover-a-new-crystal-type2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crystals\u2014from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds\u2014don\u2019t always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly structures in a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58959-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>In exploring how crystals form, the researchers also came across an unusual, rod-shaped crystal that hadn\u2019t been identified before, naming it \u201cZangenite\u201d for the NYU graduate student who discovered it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystals\u2014from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds\u2014don\u2019t always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly structures in a new study published in Nature Communications. In exploring how crystals form, the researchers also came across an unusual, rod-shaped crystal that hadn\u2019t been identified [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}