matter

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    There’s a link between photosynthesis and strange physics state

    "As far as we know, these areas have never been connected before, so we found this very compelling and exciting."

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    Team cracks the case of the universe’s ‘missing matter’

    Researchers have solved a decades-old mystery of "missing matter"—material long predicted to exist in the universe but never detected—until now.

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    Cooper pairs reveal a new state of matter

    Cooper pairs, electron duos that enable superconductivity, can also conduct electricity as normal metals do, researchers report.

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    Neutrino experiments could rewrite Standard Model of Physics

    The existence of matter suggests something is wrong with the Standard Model of Physics. New experiments with neutrinos aim to solve this mystery.

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    Tiny detector is 1st to see neutrinos bump nucleus

    A new neutrino detector is only about the size of a toaster.

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    Are we made of atoms from distant galaxies?

    Up to half of the matter in the Milky Way may come from far-off galaxies—including the atoms that make up each of us.