Simple questions in materials science often turn out to have very complex answers. Unravelling the mysteries of how our bones break, on the microscopic scale, is a major task.
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Taylor, D. How does bone break?. Nature Mater 2, 133–134 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat843
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