antimatter
Fermi Telescope Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space
From a NASA press release: Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms…
Anti-hydrogen Captured, Held For First Time
[/caption] Can warp drive be far behind? A paper published in this week’s edition of Nature reports that for the…
Possibility for White Dwarf Pulsars?
[/caption]Some satellites get all the glory. While Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer frequently make headlines with their stunning images, many other…
Dark Matter Detector Heading to the ISS This Summer
[/caption] The long-awaited experiment that will search for dark matter is getting closer to heading to the International Space Station.…
Antineutrino
[/caption] The antineutrino (or anti-neutrino) is a lepton, an antimatter particle, the counterpart to the neutrino. Actually, there are three…
Superbright Supernova First Observed of Antimatter Variety
[/caption] The supernova 2007bi wasn't your typical supernova: it was 10 times brighter than a Type Ia supernova, making it…
Building an Antimatter Spaceship
If you're looking to build a powerful spaceship, nothing's better than antimatter. It's lightweight, extremely powerful and could generate tremendous…