crystallography
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A Time Crystal Survived a Whopping 40 Minutes
A team of physicists in Germany managed to create a time crystal that demonstrably lasts 40 minutes—10 million times longer than other known crystals—and could persist for even longer. Ordinary crystals, by which I mean crystals in macro-scale space, are solids whose atoms are arranged in a highly organized pattern. Diamonds, snowflakes, and table salts…
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Johnson & Johnson Forced to Pay $3 Billion in Baby Powder Cancer Case After U.S. Supreme Court Denial
Johnson & Johnson will not be getting out of its obligation to pay up for losing a civil court case over its baby powder products that allegedly contained asbestos. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court announced it would not hear the company’s appeal of a $US2.1 ($3) billion verdict from a 2018 trial in Missouri involving…
