Mysterious Particle Found After Decades of Searching

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Meet the Majorana fermion! This was posted in Science over the weekend, but I just saw it on Yahoo and thought I'd re-up it here:

An elusive particle that is its own antiparticle may have been found, and, if confirmed, would be the first time a phenomenon predicted decades ago has been seen in a real system.

Some researchers suggest that in the future, this mysterious particle called a Majorana fermion could be useful in carrying bits of information in quantum computers...

Until now, the only suggestion of the particle's existence was a theory posed by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana in 1937, who predicted the Majorana fermion.

http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-particle-found-decades-searching-130005728.html

Ain't it purty?