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In 2025, artificial intelligence helped identify a new hypernucleus with two strange quarks.

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A hypernucleus is an atomic nucleus that contains at least one hyperon, a particle with strange quarks. AI analysed collision data and identified a new double-lambda hypernucleus, something that had not been detected in 25 years.

Source: MIT

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