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60% of Materials Follow the “Rule of Four,” but Scientists Don’t Know Why


Scientists are normally happy to find regularities and correlations in their data – but only if they can explain them. Otherwise, they worry that those patterns might just be revealing some flaw in the data itself, so-called experimental artifacts. That’s what scientists in Nicola Marzari’s group

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