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Strange lines form a pattern

There is a weird new state of matter that can't be stirred or pushed

29 October 2018

Rigid light is a strange new state of matter. It’s somewhere between a solid and a superfluid, and can’t be stirred, rotated, or even pushed
An explosion in space

The Higgs boson may have stopped the early universe from collapsing

27 October 2018

Moments after the big bang, calculations show the universe could have collapsed into black holes. The reason it didn’t could be explained by the Higgs boson

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