Exciting first results from deuteron-gold collisions at Brookhaven

"The latest results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the world's most powerful facility for nuclear physics research, strengthen scientists' confidence that RHIC collisions of gold ions have created unusual conditions and that they are on the right path to discover a form of matter called the quark-gluon plasma, believed to have existed in the first microseconds after the birth of the universe" (1 page).