The LHC Has Found a New Particle Unlike Any Other Form of Matter

The LHC Has Found a New Particle Unlike Any Other Form of Matter

Not content with perhaps the biggest scientific discovery of the decade , scientists at the Large Hadron Collide continue to search for new particles—and now they’ve found one that seems to be an entirely new form of matter.

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Scientists Created a New Form of Matter and It’s Like a Lightsaber

Scientists Created a New Form of Matter and It's Like a Lightsaber

The latest science news out of Harvard and MIT sounds like a joke, but it’s not. A team of physicists were fooling around with photons when they managed to get the particles to clump together to form a molecule, one that’s unlike any other matter. And it behaves, they say, just like a lightsaber.

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There Are Way More Than Three States of Matter

There Are Way More Than Three States of Matter

Myth: There are only three states of matter.

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The Weird New Solid That’s Actually a Liquid

The Weird New Solid That's Actually a Liquid

Usually, if you cool any substance down enough it will turn into a solid—the most stable state of matter that exists, according to traditional physics. But that could all be about to change, because researchers have discovered a weird new liquid state that’s more stable than a solid crystal.

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