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On the border between matter and anti-matter: Nanoscientists find long-sought Majorana particle

On the border between matter and anti-matter: Nanoscientists find long-sought Majorana particle | Science News | Scoop.it

Scientists in the Netherlands have succeeded for the first time in detecting a Majorana particle.

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Jeff Forshaw: why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter

Jeff Forshaw: why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter | Science News | Scoop.it
Scientists are still unsure about the difference between matter and antimatter, but one thing is certain – life wouldn't exist if they were perfectly equal, writes Jeff Forshaw...
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Jeff Forshaw

Jeff Forshawn es profesor de física teórica en la Universidad de Manchester y co-autor con Brian Cox de: "The Quantum Universe".

 

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Is the Era of Dark Matter Over?

Is the Era of Dark Matter Over? | Science News | Scoop.it

CERN physicist Dragan Hajdukovic has written a striking new paper than explains the universe's accelerating expansion in terms other than dark matter and dark energy. 

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Does antimatter weigh more than matter? Lab experiment to find out the answer

Does antimatter weigh more than matter? Lab experiment to find out the answer | Science News | Scoop.it
Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer.
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University of California - Riverside

El artículo es publicado por la Universidad de California que destaca por su investigación en física de partículas.

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LHCb - The Beauty Experiment

A short documentary on the LHCb experiment, on the quest for the mystery of Antimatter.
To view a full list of available subtitles, put the video in full screen and click on "cc" on the bottom bar.

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Is the New Physics Here? Atom Smashers Get an Antimatter Surprise | Large Hadron Collider LHCb | Matter & Antimatter Asymmetry & CP Violation | LiveScience

Is the New Physics Here? Atom Smashers Get an Antimatter Surprise | Large Hadron Collider LHCb | Matter & Antimatter Asymmetry & CP Violation | LiveScience | Science News | Scoop.it
The Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator may have found its first new physics beyond the standard model in results from the LHCb experiment that show matter and antimatter decay differently.
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NASA Observes Antimatter Streaming from Thunderstorms on Earth

NASA Observes Antimatter Streaming from Thunderstorms on Earth | Science News | Scoop.it

"We see gamma-ray bursts, one of the most distant phenomena we know about in the Universe, we see bursts from soft gamma-ray repeaters in our galaxy, flashes of gamma rays from solar flares, our solar neighborhood -- and now we're also seeing gamma rays from thunderstorms right here on Earth," said Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist at Nasa.

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"Dark Stars" of the Early Universe --Were They Powered by Antimattter?

"Dark Stars" of the Early Universe --Were They Powered by Antimattter? | Science News | Scoop.it
Dark matter stars: not an attempt to destroy the rebels in Star Wars IX, but gigantic stars fueled by the annihilation of dark matter.
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Anti-matter set for gravity test

Anti-matter set for gravity test | Science News | Scoop.it
Researchers prepare pairs of matter and anti-matter particles in a bid to finally resolve whether anti-matter repels normal matter in a kind of "anti-gravity".
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How to build a gamma-ray laser with antimatter hybrid - physics-math - 22 December 2011 - New Scientist

How to build a gamma-ray laser with antimatter hybrid - physics-math - 22 December 2011 - New Scientist | Science News | Scoop.it
Now there's a way to make unstable positronium atoms survive much longer, a key step towards making a powerful gamma-ray laser...
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Rotation of the Milky Way --May Hold Clue to Matter & Antimatter Mystery (Today's Most Popular)

Rotation of the Milky Way --May Hold Clue to Matter & Antimatter Mystery (Today's Most Popular) | Science News | Scoop.it

"The spin of our galaxy has a twisting effect on our local space that is a million times stronger than that caused by the spin of the Earth." --Dr Mark Hadley, of the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick

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