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Credit: Photo/Bernard Dupont/Wikimedia Commons (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International)

Credit: John Freudenthal and Alexander Shtukenberg, New York University
Credit: Oleg Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University

Credit: Rachel Thayer

Credit: Jaya G. Yodh Ph.D., teaching assistant professor, medical education facilitator, Carle Illinois College of Medicine; research assistant professor, Department of Physics, NSF Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Credit: Professor Chris Van de Walle, Dr. Anderson Janotti, Solid State Lighting and Energy, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB); Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Lance Putnam and Basak Alper, Media Arts and Technology, UCSB

Credit: HHMI Janelia Research Campus

Credit: Don Smith, National MagLab
Credit: Ye Group and Steven Burrows/JILA

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF

Credit: Zhangxian Ouyang, University of Delaware
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