"Quasiparticle" discovered only has mass moving in one direction

For the first time, researchers observed a type of quasiparticle that behaves in an unusual way. It only has mass moving in one direction.

Physicists just witnessed quasiparticles forming for the first time ever

For the first time, scientists have observed the formation of quasiparticles - a strange phenomenon observed in certain solids - in real time, something that physicists have been struggling to do for decades.