
KNOWLEDGE
The quasicrystal that fell to Earth from outer space
In 2011, Dan Schechtman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering quasicrystals. Unlike regular crystals, quasicrystals don't have a repeating pattern. Schechtman made quasicrystals in a lab in 1982, but no one had found them in nature until 2008. Now, scientists in Italy and the United States