A strange mineral found in a meteorite does not behave like anything on Earth — and when it's heated, it acts even weirder. In a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, research led by Columbia Engineering detailed the incredible properties of their sample of silica tridymite, a literally alien form of silicon dioxide that was taken from a meteorite that landed in Germany way back in 1724. Chief among them: the material does not follow normal heat conduction rules as we know them on Earth. Instead, it maintains a constant level of thermal conductivity when […]

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