Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

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Each blue-red “sandwich” represents a synapse. (Image: Courtesy of the researchers) “Twenty-fold expansion gets you into the realm that biological molecules operate in. The building blocks of life are ...