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Some sculptors work in marble, others in wood… but Harvard University biomineralization researcher Wim Noorduin creates his masterpieces inside a beaker. You'd be hard-pressed to put his flowery sculptures on a regular museum pedestal, though. They're actually microscopic crystal structures many times smaller than the width of a human hair.
(Wim Noorduin/World Science Festival)
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Minerals can naturally assemble into impressive shapes, even at very tiny scales, and Noorduin's scientific research...
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