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The former Quark! gift shop in East Lansing. The store has moved online and the location on Grand River Avenue has closed. Just four years after Quark!, a science inspired gift shop, took over one of ...

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon plasma that filled the universe just after the Big Bang really was a ...

New results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider show energetic quarks creating wake-like ripples in quark-gluon plasma, confirming that the early universe behaved as a nearly frictionless, perfect fluid ...

New theoretical analysis places the likelihood of massive neutron stars hiding cores of deconfined quark matter between 80 and 90 percent. The result was reached through massive supercomputer runs ...

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