A tiny electron anti-neutrino has traveled incredible cosmic distances at almost the speed of light, colliding with an electron in the ice of Antarctica. This interaction produced a W- boson, one of the carrier particles for the weak nuclear force …
A new study published in Physical Review Letters presents evidence for the creation of matter and antimatter from energy, specifically light particles (photons). In doing so, it offers a splendidly concrete example of the world’s most famous equat…
In the depths of space, there are celestial bodies where extreme conditions prevail: Rapidly rotating neutron stars generate super-strong magnetic fields. And black holes, with their enormous gravitational pull, can cause huge, energetic jets of ma…
A subatomic particle has been found to switch between matter and antimatter, according to Oxford physicists analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider. It turns out that an unfathomably tiny weight difference between two particles could have s…
In a recent press release, CERN intends to continue the road leading to passing, from fiction to reality, the portable antimatter storage device which serves as the backdrop to Dan Brown's famous novel, Angels and Demons. The device in qu…
A t the very beginning of the universe, the Big Bang created equal parts matter and anti-matter, so scientists believe. If the sets of matter were to ever meet, as particles come in pairs, then they would annihilate each other in a burst of energ…
Scientists have now confirmed that an unusually powerful particle of antimatter crashed down into Antarctica back in December 2016. The collision seems to have triggered a subatomic cascade effect called Glashow resonance, Live Science reports…
