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Frequently asked questions about antimatter at CERN. Dan Brown has a lot to answer for.
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The weirdness continues, in this remarkable uninformative press release.
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Applying a voltagee across a graphene bilayer produces an energy gap that depends on the transverse voltage, which might make it a tunable semiconductor.
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"[I]t's no loss to fantasy or to art if the film of The Golden Compass doesn't grind to a storytelling halt so that Richard Dawkins can guest-star in a Very Special Episode of My Little Atheist."
"Does CERN own an X-33 space plane?"
...what? Really? Is that really in the book?
Gods, somebody shoot him before he publishes again!
As is often the case, the "supersolidity" paper bears little resemblance to the press release. The paper explains their observations in terms of dislocation networks pinned by Helium-3 impurities at very low temperature. There's very little about supersolidity in the paper, and all of it is speculative.