Crows might appear like they only screech and steal food, but scientists recently discovered a complex side of these clever birds. Like us, they recognise unfamiliar shapes. German researchers found ...

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Molecules routinely self-assemble into close-packed arrays and periodic structures. The scientific and device-specific relevance of such ordered networks is clear. However, networks with weaker order ...