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Scientists tried to solve the mystery of the helium nucleus — and ended up more confused than everHelium is the simplest element in the periodic table with more than one particle in its nucleus, yet state of the art theory and experiments on it don't add up.
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Exotic new state of matter discovered by squishing subatomic particles into an ultradense crystalBy shining a strong beam of light through two chemical compounds, scientists discovered a unique new state of matter made of particles called excitons.
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Gravity can transform into light, mind-bending physics paper suggestsIn the early universe, gravity may have been capable of creating light, a new theoretical paper finds.
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Scientists create 'slits in time' in mind-bending physics experimentResearchers replicated the classic double slit experiment using lasers, but their slits are in time not space.
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'Ghostly' neutrinos spotted inside the world's largest particle accelerator for the first timeSignatures of neutrinos, or ghostly particles that rarely interact with others, were tentatively spotted in the Large Hadron Collider in 2021. Now, physicists have confirmed they are real.
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Atomic Clock Is So Precise It Won't Lose a Second for 15 Billion YearsThe most precise clock ever made could hold time accurately for the entire age of the universe.
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Higgs Boson Confirms Reigning Physics Model Yet AgainThe Higgs boson decays into matter-carrying particles known as tau leptons, yet another confirmation of the standard model of physics.
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Misbehaving Particles Poke Holes in Reigning Physics TheoryPhysicists at the BaBar experiment have seen evidence pointing to a hole in the Standard Model of physics.
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Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern PhysicsThere's something out there that physicists have never seen before, and it's coming up from the bottom of the Earth. Scientists think it's a brand-new particle.
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