Malaria Parasites Are Full of Wildly Spinning Iron Crystals. Scientists Finally Know Why.

Malaria parasites are full of wildly spinning iron crystals. Scientists finally know why.

Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Oct 30, 2025 Every cell of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the organism that causes malaria, contains a tiny compartment full of microscopic iron crystals. As long as the parasite is alive, the crystals dance. They spin, jolt, and ricochet in their little bubble like change in an overclocked washing machine, too fast and chaotic to even be tracked by traditional scientific techniques. And when the

Scientists create new time crystals that are visible to the naked eye

If you were able to visualize the passage of time, it may appear as looping ribbons of color, these fragments ribboning and glinting whenever they refracted light. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have come close to making that a reality. They’ve created what they refer to as “continuous space-time crystals,” a type of strange material that moves in repetitive cycling motion via shifts through both space and time. These material…