This “living crystal” is a clump of rotating, jiggling starfish embryos in the lab of the biophysicist Nikta Fakhri. It embodies a state of matter known as an odd material that may have previously unknown biological functions. https://www.quantamagazine.org/starfish-whisperer-develops-a-physical-language-of-life-20230111/ | Quanta Magazine

Quantum chromodynamics predicts that the proton is, at high resolution, a dandelion-like cloud made up almost entirely of force-carrying particles called gluons. https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-proton-the-most-complicated-thing-imaginable-20221019/ | Quanta Magazine

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