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Published online 3 May 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030428-18

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New subatomic particle found

Mysterious quark blend hints at what holds atoms together.

Researchers have stumbled across a new subatomic particle. The mysterious body is causing theorists to rethink their ideas about the strong force, which binds subatomic particles together into atoms.

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