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“Physicists at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, have made a major advance in the understanding of what appears to be a new state of matter.” At very low temperatures, helium gas turns into a liquid. Put under extreme pressure the liquid turns into a solid. Physicists have been manipulating solid helium so they can study its unusual behavior. Scientists made the discovery by cooling solid helium to an extremely low temperature and oscillating the material at different speeds.

This makes us wonder if we can ever use this state of matter for any thing. Like a super solid building at the very least. It’s interesting to find out we have more than the four normal states of matter. Read the article here.