crystal critters (IMAGE)
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When the researchers began studying the way salts crystallize on certain surfaces, they found that the process repeatedly produced predictable multi-legged shapes. The researchers dubbed them collectively as "crystal critters" in the title of their paper.
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Courtesy of Kripa Varanasi, Samantha McBride and Henri-Louis Girard, et al
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