A scientist-turned-artist has taken dead bees and used them as a scaffold for deep blue copper sulphate crystals. Simon Park, a senior lecturer in microbiology at the University of Surrey, told ...

Crystallization is a common method in synthetic chemistry that allows the isolation and purification of compounds, and also aids their characterization through techniques such as X-ray crystallography ...

When you look at these crystals, do you see birds in flight? Samie Yaseen did, when he found them at the bottom of a beaker that had formerly held a copper sulfate solution. He left the solution out ...