ISS to house Cold Air Labratory for extreme temperature atomic research

The International Space Station will be home to the coldest place in the universe this summer after NASA scientists conduct experiments in a chamber that cools temperatures to near absolute zero. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology announced a plan Wednesday to send up the agency’s Cold Atom Laboratory, an ice-chest sized box that can lower its internal temperature to within one-billionth of a degree above absolute zero, the temperature at which all atomic motion stops.