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Six looping videos of different types of snowflakes and snow crystals growing.
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Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Snowflakes

By Rebecca Boyle
December 19, 2019
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Snow crystals come in two main types. The “pope” of snowflake physics has a new theory that explains why.

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A Chemist Shines Light on a Surprising Prime Number Pattern

By Natalie Wolchover
May 14, 2018
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When a crystallographer treated prime numbers as a system of particles, the resulting diffraction pattern created a new view of existing conjectures in number theory.

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A Quasicrystal’s Shocking Origin

By Natalie Wolchover
July 8, 2016
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By blasting a stack of minerals with a four-meter-long gun, scientists have found a new clue about the backstory of a very strange rock.

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