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Theorem unifies superfluids and other weird materials - University of California, Berkeley, physicist Hitoshi Murayama and graduate student Haruki Watanabe have discovered a commonality among these materials that can be used to predict or even design new materials that will exhibit such unusual behavior. The theory applies equally to magnets, crystals, neutron stars, and cosmic strings. Reference: H. Watanabe and H. Murayama, 'Unified Description of Non-Relativistic Nambu-Goldstone bosons,' Physical Review Letters, April 2012 updated.