What’s hot in science? Research news for the day of April 14, 2021

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stardust

Wed, 14 Apr 2021
From stardust to pale blue dot: Carbon’s interstellar journey to Earth

Carbon, the backbone of life on Earth, might have been delivered after planetary formation

We are made of stardust, the saying goes. U.S. National Science Foundation-funded research at the

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Left, an experimental 3D atomic model of a metallic glass nanoparticle. Right, the 3D atomic packing of a supercluster

Wed, 14 Apr 2021
Century-old problem solved with first-ever 3D atomic imaging of an amorphous solid

Study captures the structure of metallic glass

Glass, rubber and plastics all belong to a class of matter called amorphous solids. In spite of how common they are in our everyday lives, amorphous solids have long posed a challenge to scientists.

Since the 1910s, scientists have been able to map in 3D the atomic

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