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New and Improved Antimatter Spaceship for Mars Missions
Apr 17, 2006 |
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Most self-respecting starships in science fiction stories use antimatter as fuel for a good reason – it’s the most potent fuel known. While tons of chemical fuel are needed to propel a human mission to Mars, ...
Interstellar Spaceflight: Is It Possible?
Dec 07, 2005 |
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With current space travel limited to just a few robotic probes visiting nearby planets, how realistic is it to think about reaching the nearest stars? For the short term, not very – especially when we speak ...
Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory
Nov 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Take a gold sample the size of the head of a push pin, shoot a laser through it, and suddenly more than 100 billion particles of anti-matter appear.
Matter-antimatter molecules of positronium observed in the lab for the first time
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Physicists at UC Riverside have created molecular positronium, an entirely new object in the laboratory. Briefly stable, each molecule is made up of a pair of electrons and a pair of their antiparticles, called ...
What happened to the antimatter?
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Mar 23, 2006 |
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Scientists of the DZero collider detector collaboration at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have announced that their data on the properties of a subatomic particle, the B_s ...
New Theory of the Universe Marries Two of its Biggest Mysteries
Jan 22, 2007 |
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Physicists have devised a theory that unifies two widely studied mysteries of the universe: why there is an imbalance between regular matter and anti-matter (scientists expect to see equal amounts of each, but observe less ...
Advancing the study of antimatter
Mar 26, 2008 |
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“Right now, most physicists would predict that hydrogen and antihydrogen have the same properties,” Gerald Gabrielse tells Physorg.com, “What’s irresistible is that we of the opportunity to – potentially – look for tiny d ...
Physicists observe subatomic quick-change artist
Sep 25, 2006 |
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It's taken 19 long years of painstaking, high-precision experiments, but it's finally official: Physicists have announced the observation of a subatomic particle known as the Bs (pronounced "B sub s") meson ...
New form of matter-antimatter transformation observed for first time
Mar 13, 2007 |
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For the first time, scientists of the BaBar experiment at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have observed the transition of one type of particle, the neutral D-meson, into ...
Physicists observe new property of matter
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have for the first time observed the spontaneous production of coherence within "excitons," the bound pairs of electrons and holes that enable semiconductors ...
Matter and antimatter feel the chemistry
Oct 20, 2006 |
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“Antiprotonic hydrogen has already been produced,” explains Nicola Zurlo, an investigator in the Chemistry and Physics Department, headed by professor Evandro Lodi-Rizzini, at the University of Brescia in Brescia, Italy. ...
Study: Dark matter in newborn universe doused earliest stars
Dec 03, 2007 |
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“Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes” – The Grateful Dead, 1967. Perhaps the first stars in the newborn universe did not shine, but instead were invisible “dark stars” 400 to 200,000 times wider ...
Scientists Determine the Nature of Black Hole Jets
Oct 06, 2006 |
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NASA and Italian scientists using Swift have for the first time determined what the particle jets streaming from black holes are made of.
Scientists present a precision measurement of a subtle dance between matter and antimatter
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Apr 11, 2006 |
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Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today the precision measurement of extremely rapid transitions between matter and antimatter.
A 'Golden Channel' for New Physics
Feb 15, 2008 |
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A group of physicists has dubbed a particular particle decay, the decay of the Bs meson into a neutral kaon and neutral antikaon, as a “golden channel” for new physics, suggesting that probing and studying the decay could ...
