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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago

Just the general over-hyping in the headline. ABOs are hard to make due to instability. Other papers have hinted at ways to create and trap them, and now these authors did so.

Every discovery has to overturn some old rule and have promising applications in life-saving medicines or some such. You can scroll through some more of the gob-smacked headlines from press releases at the bottom of the abstract.