News articles tagged with 'positron'
Physicists build bigger 'bottles' of antimatter to unlock nature's secrets
— 19 Feb 2011 10:27 | PhysicsOnce regarded as the stuff of science fiction, antimatter - the mirror image of the ordinary matter in our observable universe - is now the focus of laboratory studies around the world…
NASA's Fermi catches thunderstorms hurling antimatter into space
— 11 Jan 2011 17:26 | AstronomyScientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before…
Antihydrogen trapped for first time
— 18 Nov 2010 10:36 | PhysicsPhysicists working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, have succeeded in trapping antihydrogen - the antimatter equivalent of the hydrogen…
An explosive pair
— 20 May 2010 13:28 | AstronomyNot all explosions are created equal: It's as true for film effects as it is for the stars. Yet, until now, scientists had only observed two basic kinds of exploding stars, known as…
Possible new class of supernovae puts calcium in your bones
— 19 May 2010 17:00 | AstronomyIn the past decade, robotic telescopes have turned astronomers' attention to scads of strange exploding stars, one-offs that may or may not point to new and unusual physics…
UCI astrophysicists cast doubt on link between excess positrons and dark matter
— 17 Apr 2010 08:56 | AstronomyAstrophysicists are looking everywhere - inside the Large Hadron Collider, in deep mines and far out into space - for evidence of dark matter, which makes up about 25 percent of the…
Particles as tracers for the most massive explosions in the Milky Way
— 12 Aug 2009 12:06 | AstronomyAstronomers recently observed a mysterious flux of particles in the universe, and the hope was born that this may be the first observation of the remnants of 'dark matter'…
Astrophysicists solve mystery in Milky Way galaxy
— 9 Jul 2009 15:19 | AstronomyA team of astrophysicists has solved a mystery that led some scientists to speculate that the distribution of certain gamma rays in our Milky Way galaxy was evidence of a form of undetectable…
Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory
— 18 Nov 2008 15:56 | PhysicsTake 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. The anti-matter, also known as positrons,…
Vast cloud of antimatter traced to binary stars
— 11 Jan 2008 20:51 | AstronomyFour years of observations from the European Space Agency's Integral (INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) satellite may have cleared up one of the most vexing mysteries…
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