PARIS, France — Scientists on Wednesday said that they have successfully stirred a strange matter called a "supersolid" — which is both rigid and fluid — for the first time, providing direct proof of the dual nature of this quantum oddity.

In everyday life, there are four states of matter — solid, liquid, gas and the rarer plasma.

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