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We now know how gold crystals begin to form on an atomic basis. For the first time, scientists observed – and filmed! – The first milliseconds of gold crystal formation and found that it is more complex than previous research suggested. Instead of a single, irreversible transition, the atoms come …

Five years ago, humanity still had to find gravitational waves. Now, the observations are moving at an astonishing pace. Over a six-month period last year, the LIGO-Virgin collaboration detected an average of 1.5 gravitational wave events per week. From 1 April to 1 October 2019, upgraded LIGOs and virgin interferometers …