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Physicists Stir a Supersolid For First Time, Proving Its Bizarre Dual Nature

Scientists on Wednesday said that they have successfully stirred a strange matter called a "supersolid" – which is both rigid and fluid – for the first time, providing direct proof of the dual nature of this quantum oddity.

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