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Seventy-five years ago, theoretical physicist Paul Dirac asserted that all basic building blocks of matter have mirror counterparts in nature, known as antimatter. When matter and antimatter collide, ...

Fermilab radiation safety physicist William S. Higgins explains how the concept of antimatter first made its way into science fiction. Like everyone in his profession, John W. Campbell, Jr., editor of ...

Astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour recently attached the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, to the International Space Station. It will attempt to detect the presence of antimatter in outer ...

Our universe is filled with particles, such as electrons and protons, which make up all the stuff on our planet and beyond: animals, plants, people, planets, asteroids, stars, gas clouds, and galaxies ...

THE intrigue of antimatter lies in its untouchability – its utter incompatibility with the stuff of our familiar world. Antimatter particles obey all the same physical laws as matter particles, but ...