ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] WHAT do magnets and soap films have in common? The answer is spontaneous symmetry breaking. Physicists ascribe permanent magnetization of iron to a broken time-reversal symmetry. And on page 614 of this issue1, Eckhardt et al. show that a thin film of soap-like organic molecules can separate into ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/362593a0
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