By 
Skylar Tibbits
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TED-Ed Original

Self-assembly: The power of organizing the unorganized

From something as familiar as our bodies to things vast as the formation of galaxies we can observe the process of self-assembly or when unordered parts come together in an organized structure. Skylar Tibbits explains how we see self-assembly at work in biology and chemistry -- and even in our future technologies.

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