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14 chip manufacturing plants in space. Photo: Space Forge

A factory that takes off into space: Space Forge wants to grow the “seeds” of next-generation chips there

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The British startup claims that microgravity and the vacuum of orbit allow for purer crystals for chips for AI, communications and defense infrastructure; ForgeStar-1 launched in 2025 on SpaceX and demonstrated plasma creation as a step towards commercial production and return
The IM-1 spacecraft landing on the moon. Illustration: Intuitive Machines.

Intuitive Machines will enable the production of chips in space and their return – with Space Forge

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After the historic landing on the moon, the American company is collaborating with Space Forge to develop a commercial return system – towards producing pure crystals in orbit around the Earth for the global chip market.
The list of crystals in the zebrafish: in the gill covers (top row) - long and narrow crystals, in the eye of the fish (middle row) shorter crystals, and in the skin (bottom row) - the shortest

The animals' secret recipe book for creating colorful and versatile crystals has been revealed

Nanocrystals from the research as photographed with the lens of the electron microscope in Prof. Markovich's laboratory

Here are the nano crystals that may improve life

Researchers have traced for the first time a unique process in the growth of tiny crystals, which could improve our lives and which may have occurred at the beginning of life
Schematic representation of individual molecules in a crystal showing the development of order from lowest (red) to highest (blue)

Formation games - about the order emerging from disorder

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Micro-CT imaging of the crystal

Crystal in surprise

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Hallide perovskite crystals - a simple production process and a feast for the eyes

Fine

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When the scientists inserted a magnetic surface into a solution of right and left chiral molecules (in red and blue), crystals of the molecules formed with opposite magnetic poles. Prof. Ron Naaman's lab, Weizmann Institute

one way crystal

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And there was the face plane: the process of turning a nematic elastomer sheet into a face-like curved three-dimensional surface. Illustration: Dr. Hillel Aharoni's laboratory, Weizmann Institute

What do liquid crystals and wrinkle formation have in common?

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Helix-shaped cholesterol crystals. Digital processing of data obtained from four different crystals in different cells using soft x-ray imaging under cold conditions (cryo-SXT)

The bad crystal

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Image 2: Spicule with crystals of vetrite separated from Redmania momos. Photo: Technion spokespeople

"Science" reveals: a 100-year-old mystery has been solved

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A nanometer crystal from the physchem zeolite material. Photo: Gutenberg University

An innovative method for viewing nanoscale crystals

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Figure 3. Different types of symmetry in crystals. The pattern of the 5th order symmetry crystal will never repeat itself.

On minerals, knits and gems

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A single crystal of an organic semiconductor material in polarized light. It is twice as fast as the organic material from which it is derived. The length of the white lines used as a scale - 10 microns

An effective method for developing foldable displays

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Prof. Danny Shechtman. Photo: Technion

Prof. Dan Shechtman's discovery of quasi-crystals has implications for chemistry, physics, materials engineering and even art

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Blue and orange glow in response to purple lighting

A new family of light-emitting materials

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Prof. Itamar Procacia

fault line

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Protein crystals, some of which were grown on the American space shuttle and some on the Russian space station.

How do you grow your crystals?

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Developers of the canvases - Ron Zuckerman and Ki Nam Tai. Photo: Roy Kaltschmidt from Berkeley Lab PR

A molecular paper was prepared - a two-dimensional polymer crystal

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

DNA crystals three dimensional

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Explosives are becoming "greener", cleaner and safer

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A new type of glassy material has been discovered

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Amorphous materials: how some solids flow as liquids

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Tremendous savings for the major pharmaceutical companies through a new method for cleaning crystals

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A new synthesis method will facilitate the study of protein structures

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