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Simple oblong cells are seen against a black background, looking like individual bubbles or small clusters. The membranes glow green and red. An abstract decorative representation of atoms in molecules interacting. Many colorful interconnecting particles on a black field. A field of pink, purple, cyan, indigo, orange, and yellow shapes packed together, resembling vibrant abstract art. Artist's rendering of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries with a midnight blue background and electric blue outlines surrounding 3 batteries A blue and white visualization of the zero-energy electronic states – also known as a “Fermi surface” – from the kagome material studied by MIT’s Riccardo Comin and colleagues. Gloved hand holding a petri dish of radiative coating liquid robots This scanning tunneling microscope image of a graphene sheet reveals that a Wigner crystal – a honeycomb arrangement of electrons, like an electron ice – has formed inside a layered structure underneath. (Image by Hongyuan Li and Shaowei Li, courtesy of Nature) skyrmions