Glueballs are made of gluons, which bind quarks to form protons and neutrons.Credit: Sefa kart/Getty After almost two decades of searching, a team of physicists in China says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious particle called a glueball that is made entirely of force-carrying particles. Researchers at the Beijing Spectrometer III (BESIII) Collaboration,
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Nigeria’s environment agency has launched an urgent investigation after a strange white foamy substance appeared on a major highway, causing a public spectacle and raising safety concerns. The National Environmental Regulations and Standards Enforcement Agency (Nesrea) has warned people to stay away from the unidentified substance along the busy Kaduna-Abuja highway, which links the main
In 1996, cryobiologist Gregory Fahy walked into his doctor’s office and got a monthly supply of growth hormone. Your hope, reinforced by a single study in rats1was that the injections would help him grow his thymus, a peculiar immune organ that atrophies and virtually disappears as people age. Regenerating it, Fahy thought, would help it
Authorities in Australia are investigating the origin of mysterious large silver spheres that washed up on a beach in northern Queensland this weekend. The six solid objects discovered at Forrest Beach, north of Townsville, are believed to be space debris, and the Australian Space Agency (ASA) is now trying to determine where it came from.
