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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 Bird’s-Eye View of Nature’s Hidden Order

By Natalie Wolchover
July 12, 2016
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Scientists are exploring a mysterious pattern, found in birds’ eyes, boxes of marbles and other surprising places, that is neither regular nor random.

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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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In a Grain, a Glimpse of the Cosmos

By Natalie Wolchover
June 13, 2014
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When scientists traced a museum rock back to its origins, they uncovered mysteries about the early solar system.

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Solid or Liquid? Physicists Redefine States of Matter

By Natalie Wolchover
April 3, 2013
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Glass and other strange materials have long confounded textbook definitions of what it means to be solid. Now, two groups of physicists propose a new solution to the riddle.

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