It was a good week for physics research as a team at the Quantum Machines Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology developed a new material with the potential to unlock gravity-free technology. Their device is a floating platform in a vacuum that involves the use of magnets and graphite. Also, a team of physicists working on the BESIII collaboration observed an anomalous line shape around the ppbar mass threshold in the J/ψ→γ3(π+π-) decay, representing evidence of a new subatomic particle. And a team at the University of California, Riverside, solved a puzzle regarding an ancient galaxy found by the Webb telescope—the galaxy JWST-ER1g acts as a lens, bending light from a faraway source, resulting in the observed ring.
