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Art Culture

Moyna Flannigan’s ‘Matter’

The magic of an art exhibition is that it is like a gig, only you control how long the set lasts. The artist relinquishes control once the artwork is completed, and this is where the audience gets involved: art is an offering to the viewer to be seen as long as the viewer is interested. […]

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Science Science

Time crystals: the discovery of a previously theoretical matter

This week, two research groups at different universities in the US have created a new type of matter: Time Crystals. Normal crystals, such as salt and snowflakes, have an ‘asymmetrical ground state’ which means that when they have no energy (are in their ground state), the structure may look different from different angles (asymmetrical). The […]