Discovery Of Massless Weyl Fermion Particle Could Revolutionize Electronics

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Weyl fermions are essentially "holes" where other electrons would appear. Shutterstock/general-fmv

Two separate teams of researchers have found evidence for a theorized type of massless particle known as a “Weyl fermion.” The discovery was made by scientists at Princeton University in New Jersey and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and could herald a whole new age of better electronics.