What makes up the matter we perceive in the universe? To start, there are the usual suspects, like electrons, protons, quarks and neutrinos. But if those particles aren't strange enough for you, I'm ...

For the first time, scientists have caught a glimpse of a strange and elusive creature in the world of quantum physics—a semi-Dirac fermion. This unusual quasiparticle behaves as if it has no mass in ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...

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