SCIENCE IN THE NEWS WEEKLY
Curious Alloy May Have Arrived in Meteorite
A new study suggests that examples of a crystal previously thought to be impossible in nature may have come from space. Quasicrystals have an unusual structure--in between those of crystals and glasses. Quasicrystals were first described in the 1980s by Israeli researcher Daniel Schechtman, who was awarded last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery.
In other space news, NASA kicked off the new year with a pair of probes circling the moon in the latest mission to understand how it formed.
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