Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
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Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.
Life finds a way — in this case, by smelling like death.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
In our common experience, you can’t get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.
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Israeli food-tech company DouxMatok (Hebrew for “double sweet”) has created a sugary product that uses 40 percent less actual sugar yet still tastes sweet.
“Our mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food technology by 2035,” said Patrick O. Brown at the 2020 Web Summit.
For years and over three separate experiments, “lepton universality” appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.
The wise, the old, and the experienced matter to a full and happy life.