Science: The Moon isn’t made of green cheese and almost certainly doesn’t harbor hypothetical particles called " strangelets,” an analysis of lunar soil has shown. The result undermines a possible strangelet sighting a decade ago and strengthens the case that the bizarre particles, which protesters once feared might emerge from an atom smasher and consume Earth, don’t exist."I’m not surprised,” says Frank Wilczek, a theorist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. “It would be a great discovery to find strangelets, but the theoretical case for them is pretty shaky.” Still, he says, “it’s not crazy” to look for them.
For the UNESCO section chief, “striking a balance between global coherence and respect for national ownership and cultural diversity is both essential and complex.”
May 13, 2026 01:46 PM
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