After 85 years of hard work and searching, scientists have

confirmed the presence of a massless particle called the Weyl fermion for the

first time ever. With the exceptional ability to act as both matter and

anti-matter inside a crystal, this odd particle can produce electrons that have

no mass. The discovery is a big step, not just because we lastly have proof

that these mysterious particles exist, but because it paves the way for far

more effective electronics, and new types of quantum computing. Lead investigator

and physicist M. Zahid Hasan from Princeton University in the US told

“Weyl fermions could be used to solve the traffic

jams that you get with electrons in electronics – they can move in a much more

efficient, ordered way than electrons.They could lead to a new type of

electronics we call ‘Weyltronics’.”