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Why symmetry gets really interesting when it is broken
12 mins | Apr 20, 2018
From butterfly wings to spider webs, our universe is full of symmetry. But the physicist Anthony Phillips, writing in Aeon magazine, argues that sometimes it is by breaking the symmetry that we make the most exciting discoveries.
