Time crystals can be grown at home Published studies (https://bit.ly/3EK4see) have shown that time crystals exist not only as a product of scientists' laboratory activities. It turned out that such structures can also form in the natural environment, while the process itself is much simpler than experts imagined. This is a great success for humanity: Wilczek's crystals can be used for practical purposes, for example, to create ultra-precise atomic clocks, new generation gyroscopes and other devices. Time crystals exhibit very strange activity when exposed to electromagnetic waves. In such a crystal, all the molecules rotate in a certain direction, and with each new EM pulse, it changes. But even if the impulses are unsystematic, the direction of rotation still changes at regular intervals, due to which time crystals can be used as a measure of time intervals, that is, as a universal clock. New work (https://bit.ly/3CH62wM) by physicists from Yale University proved that synthesizing time crystals is so easy that a child can do it. They found that temporary crystals are formed inside ordinary crystals of monoammonium phosphate, which is often used in young chemist's kits and other educational toys, thanks to which a beautiful crystal can be grown at home.