Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) is an emerging method for the structure determination of proteins using X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) 1,2. In SFX, a continuous supply of crystals is ...

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...

Cube-shaped ice is rare, at least at the microscopic level of the ice crystal. Now researchers have coaxed typically hexagonal 3-D ice crystals to form the most cubic ice ever created in the lab.