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The Unlikely Rocks Found in Mosques, Siberia & Outer Space

A Penrose tiling, a 2D pattern that shows a similar lack of repetition as a 3D quasicrystal.Wikipedia

ack in June, researchers at Ames laboratory in Iowa announced the —an unusual class of crystalline materials where the atomic structure boasts regular patterns that never repeat themselves. They resemble the , and technically fall somewhere between a crystal and a glass. This latest work was featured prominently in the prominent journal —deservedly so—but barely made a blip on the general media landscape at large. It just didn’t seem

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