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Science May be "the most significant discovery in physics in half a century" Physicists at Fermilab might have found evidence of a new elementary particle or an entirely new force of nature,...
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Science This new finding confirms the particle exists. Physicists have observed what they're confident is the first known particle with four quarks. This isn't the first time the Belle detector,...
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Science CERN physicists have made a particle that likely existed for just a microsecond after the Big Bang. Using the most powerful particle collider in the world, a research group at CERN has forged...
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