For more than two decades, the International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying protein crystals. In the early days of microgravity research, scientists discovered that ...

MIT physicists have synthesized a new family of bulk crystals whose electrons behave as though they move in an effectively four-dimensional “superspace,” rather than being fully described by the three ...

Click to open image viewer. Astronauts used this crystal growth experiment equipment during Space Shuttle missions. The main goal of the experiments was to produce for scientific analysis large, ...