The Coldest Spot In The Known Universe

Space has a reputation for being cold, but the tremendous chill of deep space is nothing compared to what NASA is preparing to create very near to Earth. Researchers are planning to generate a super-cold spot on the International Space Station to study the intricacies of quantum mechanics. How cold? It's going to be the coldest spot in the known universe.

The experiment being carried out in the ISS Cold Atom Lab is going to reach temperatures as low as 100 pico-Kelvin above absolute zero (pico denotes one-trillionth).