New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

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Extremely cold atoms have been nudged to self-magnify their quantum states so they can be imaged in unprecedented detail. This could help researchers better understand what quantum particles do in odd ...