A time crystal that beats to the rhythm of both order and chaos has revealed a new way in which matter can keep time. New experiments have demonstrated the time rondeau crystal – a time crystal that repeats in time but never quite in the same way. The result is chaos in the short-term, but on longer timescales, order emerges. "In this work, we reveal the existence of new types of temporal order, arising from non-periodic but structured drives," writes a team of physicists led by Leo Joon Il