Most scientific breakthroughs don’t begin in a laboratory. They begin with someone pausing and noticing something that everyone else walked right past. This one began with a kid lifting a fallen log in his Pennsylvania backyard. Eight-year-old Hugo Deans wasn’t thinking about science when he spotted a cluster of tiny, BB-sized spheres sitting near an…

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