antimatter
A New Clue in the Hunt for the Universe's Missing Antimatter
With new measurements, CERN researchers continue the chase for matter/antimatter asymmetry.
We May Soon Know Why Antimatter Lets the Universe Exist
It wouldn't take very much antimatter to do it. A collision of matter and antimatter is a perfect release of energy, while most of the things we do to release energy from matter are very far from perfect. That matter-antimatter annihilation should give...
Ones and Zeros: That Little $2 Trillion Mistake That Downgraded Our Credit Rating
_Carl Sagan would be very happy now. Also, sad._ h3. One: The "neuroscience":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/business/neurofinance-shows-how-investors-can-shun-reason.html of the Wall Street panic button (NYT) h3. Zero: Standard & Poor's "$...
We Captured Antimatter for 16 Minutes: What That Actually Means
One of my favorite things about the universe is that it shouldn't exist. Not in like an existential _why are we even here?_ way, but in a real-deal "god who?" science-says-so way. It should have blown itself up just as quickly as it Big Banged its way...
Meet Endeavor's Dark Matter-Hunting Payload
As if spacewalking and zero gravity pooping aren’t exciting enough, space shuttle _Endeavor_ blasted off last week with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer tucked into its cargo bay. The mission of the AMS is no less than snagging particles of antimatter...