China’s glueball ‘triumph’; SpaceX rocket debris caught on video: 7 science highlights

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China’s glueball ‘triumph’; SpaceX rocket debris caught on video: 7 science highlights

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The Beijing Spectrometer III particle detector at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider in Beijing, where researchers have found the strongest evidence yet for the long-sought glueball. Photo: Handout

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1. US and Israeli physicists hail China’s glueball discovery as a ‘triumph’

The international physics community has hailed a Chinese-led discovery as a “triumph” after researchers presented the strongest evidence yet for the existence of the “glueball” – a mysterious particle made of pure force.

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