Editors’ choice in volume 85, issue 7, July 2021 for the thematic issue “Phase Transformations and the Strength of Crystals” is the paper entitled “EXAFS and EELFS Spectroscopy in Analyzing the Atomic Structure of the Bulk and Surface Ti50Ni25Cu25 Alloy Domains upon Extreme Impacts by Megaplastic Deformations and Quenching from a Melt” by the authors R. V. Sundeev, A. M. Glezer, A. V. Shalimova, A. V. Krivoruchko, A. A. Veligzhanin, and O. V. Vakhrushev published in Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Physics, 2021, Volume 85, Issue 7, P. 732-739.