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Rounding up electrons

A decade-long experiment has discovered electrons are “rounder” than expected. The experiment looked at electrons inside Ytterbium Fluoride molecules and discovered that if an electron was magnified to the size of the solar system, it would still be symmetrical to within the width of a human hair.

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