Scientists finally find the universe's glue, and it's just as useless at holding things together as the stuff in my drawer.
Physicists Find Strongest Evidence Yet for Elusive 'Glueball' Particle
After 50 years, physicists at Beijing's BES III collaboration report the strongest evidence yet that particle X(2370) is a glueball—a particle made entirely of gluons, the force carriers that bind quarks. The finding supports a key prediction of quantum chromodynamics and was presented at the International Conference on High Energy Physics.
Source: Physicists Find Strongest Evidence Yet for Elusive 'Glueball' Particle — ScienceAlert
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