It's (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal

It's (Almost) Alive! Scientists Create a Near-Living Crystal | Wired Science | Wired.com: "Three billion years after inanimate chemistry first became animate life, a newly synthesized laboratory compound is behaving in uncannily lifelike ways. The particles aren’t truly alive — but they’re not far off, either. Exposed to light and fed by chemicals, they form crystals that move, break apart and form again."