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Published online 29 November 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/051128-6

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Materials Research Society

When 5,000 materials scientists get together, is their behaviour ordered or disordered? Jenny Hogan is at the Materials Research Society's meeting in Boston to find out.

Planting an idea

It's the final day of the meeting, and the hallways of the vast Hynes convention centre are echoing and empty. Most of the sessions wound up yesterday, and most of the few that have spilled into Friday morning finish at lunchtime.

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