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CRYSTAL OF HOLES DISCOVERED: UNUSUAL STATE OF MATTER, December 05
The existence of an unusual state of matter, a crystal that consists entirely of holes, has been proven at Kiel University (Germany). As reported in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters (December 2nd , 2005), an international team led by Professor Michael Bonitz has, for the first time, demonstrated with the help of extensive computer simulations that this exotic phenomenon, the existence of which was hitherto only a subject of speculation, should certainly occur. The physicists have also been able to predict the conditions for its formation.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news8730.html

PHYSICISTS DESCRIBE STRANGE NEW FLUID-LIKE STATE OF MATTER, December 05
University of Chicago physicists have created a novel state of matter using nothing more than a container of loosely packed sand and a falling marble. They have found that the impacting marble produces a jet of sand grains that briefly behaves like a special type of dense fluid.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news8765.html

PRECISE MEASUREMENT OF PHYSICS THEORY PROVES TRUE EVEN UNDER EXTREME CONDITIONS, December 05
A new measurement in quantum electrodynamics - an extension of quantum mechanics - is 10 times more precise than any recent measurements.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news8731.html

SCIENTIST SAYS NEUTRON STARS, NOT BLACK HOLES, AT CENTER OF GALAXIES, December 01
For the past 50 years, black holes have been all the rage. Now, a University of Missouri-Rolla researcher says they never existed.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news8658.html

CHANDRA PROVES BLACK HOLE INFLUENCE IS FAR REACHING, December 01
Scientists using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered evidence of energetic plumes - particles that extend 300,000 light years into a massive cluster of galaxies. The plumes are due to explosive venting from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole, and they provide dramatic new evidence of the influence a black hole can have over intergalactic distances.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news8637.html