Day: February 9, 2012

Impossible crystals are ‘from space’

BBC Mobile January 3, 2011 – Science & Environment Examples of a crystal previously thought to be impossible in nature may have come from space, a study shows. Quasicrystals have an unusual structure – in between those of crystals and glasses. Until two years ago, quasicrystals had only been created in the lab – then geologists found