Scientists have solved a decade-old puzzle about the enigmatic 'strange quark', one of the fundamental building blocks of matter. Strange quarks are one of 6 different 'flavors' of quark that combine to form protons and neutrons (the others are 'up', 'down', 'charm', 'top' and 'bottom' quarks). The short-lived strange quark is the most mysterious.

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