{"id":239544,"date":"2026-06-24T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/nasas-cold-atom-lab-is-creating-one-of-the-weirdest-forms-of-matter-in-space"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:12:12","slug":"nasas-cold-atom-lab-is-creating-one-of-the-weirdest-forms-of-matter-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/nasas-cold-atom-lab-is-creating-one-of-the-weirdest-forms-of-matter-in-space","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-cold-atom-lab-is-creating-one-of-the-weirdest-forms-of-matter-in-space.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra-cold matter that behaves in astonishing ways. The experiments could unlock new discoveries about the universe while paving the way for powerful future technologies in space and on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra-cold matter that behaves in astonishing ways. The experiments could unlock new discoveries about the universe while paving the way for powerful future technologies in space and on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}