News Stories on Characteristic Properties
Massive Neutron Star Rules Out Exotic Matter (NewScientist.com)
Exotic states of matter such as free quarks do not arise inside neutron stars,
according to a new analysis of one of the super–dense stellar corpses.
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9428-massive-neutron-star-rules-out-exotic-matter.html
Scientists Ponder Universe’s AntiMatter (National Geographic News)
Scientists examine why the universe contains an imbalance of matter and antimatter.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0706_050706_antimatter.html
New State of Matter is “Nearly Perfect” Liquid (Scientific American)
Physicists announce that they have created what appears to be a new state of matter out of the building blocks of atomic nuclei, quarks, and gluons.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0006EA4B-28BC-1260-A8BC83414B7F0000