The discovery of a new type of symmetry in the structure of materials will greatly expand the options available for designing or discovering new materials with desirable properties. The finding is important and has broad relevance to the fields of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. Before the discovery, detailed in the journalNature Materials, scientists and […]
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An Inconvenient Galaxy
The discovery of two new components within a puzzling spiral galaxy confirm it must have a pair of arms winding in the opposite direction than that of most other galaxies, according to a study published in the Astronomical Journal. “While the existence of a galaxy with a pair of ‘backward’ arms may seem like an […]