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  • Everything you ever wanted to know about perovskite, Earth’s most abundant type of mineral—that we almost never see

    From silicates to semiconductors, here’s why one crystal structure is so prevalent in modern research.

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  • Even Chemists Are Baffled by This GIF of a Droplet Spiraling to Its Doom

    A single drop of solvent swirls like a tiny dancer atop a beaker of water, gradually jettisoning away little round bits of itself until nothing remains. Some who saw it thought it looked like a spinning galaxy, or the world’s tiniest hurricane. All who saw it wondered what the heck was going on — and that includes the researchers who conducted the experiment in 2011.

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