Strange crystals in Titan’s lakes may violate a fundamental rule of chemistry

Strange crystals in Titan’s lakes may violate a fundamental rule of chemistry

The discovery of Saturn’s moon Titan challenged what scientists thought was a fundamental rule of chemistry. There, in the extreme cold, some seemingly fundamentally incompatible molecules can combine to form solids never before seen in the Solar System, new research suggests. This foreign material, according to a team led by chemist Fernando Izquierdo-Ruiz of Sweden’s … Read more