Researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the U.S have discovered a potential new state of matter that may help explain phenomena like superconductivity. The high-magnetic-field state of the heavy fermion superconductor CeRhIn5 revealed a state in which the material’s electrons aligned in such a way so as to apparently reduce the symmetry of the original crystal, something that now appears to be universal among unconventional superconductors.