Think outside the sandbox

Mark Buchanan

Nature, 2003, vol. 425, issue 6958, 556-557

Abstract: One grain of sand is a solid. But a lot of grains together can behave like a solid or a liquid. By probing this dual personality, physicists hope to understand a host of real-world systems, says Mark Buchanan.

Date: 2003
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