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It’s a fundamental principle of physics that particles with opposite charges attract each other, while those with the same charge repel. But now, scientists at the University of Oxford have ...

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A group of fundamental particles, long theorised but thought to be physically impossible, might exist after all. Known as paraparticles, they could one day have exotic applications if we ever ...

New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before ...