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A scientist wearing gloves holds up a ceramic palette sample in two small glass tubes. Grayscale image of a six-sided plate with bubbles rising from its edges. Graphic collage of a person standing in front of peptoids and peptides Person standing in front of plastic compressed recycling blocks Group of four people standing in a line Graphic collage of a person standing in front of a periodic table anti-COVID mask Images - These images show the diabolical ironclad beetle (top left) and how its abdomen (top middle and right) contains an internal architecture (bottom) featuring puzzle piece-like joints (bottom left) that make it incredibly crush-resistant. (Credit: UC Irvine) To make the new material, the thin film is first deposited via a pulsed-laser deposition process in this chamber. The bright “plume” you see is the laser hitting the target and depositing the material. Photo - A blue crystal recovered from a meteorite that fell near Morocco in 1998. The scale bar represents 200 microns (millionths of a meter). Such crystals, which have been studied at Berkeley Lab, have been found to contain liquid water and complex organic compounds. (Credit: Queenie Chan/The Open University, U.K.)