It's (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Three billion years after inanimate chemistry first became animate life, a newly synthesized laboratory compound is behaving in uncannily lifelike ways. The particles aren't truly alive -- but they're not far off, either.



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