NASA Is Making a Fifth State of Matter in Orbit

According to io9, NASA has launched an experiment aboard a spacecraft—a lab about the size of a mini fridge—designed to create a fifth state of matter in orbit. By cooling atoms to near absolute zero in microgravity, scientists can study Bose-Einstein condensates in ways impossible on Earth, advancing our understanding of quantum physics.

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