30 April 2021
Scientists identify 14 stars that could be made of antimatter
...identified 14 likely culprits that could be hiding it. The case of antimatter is a head-scratcher. We live in a Universe made exclusively of... it is called the positron. As matter and antimatter particles annihilate when they come into contact with one...
13 July 2018
Neutrino discovery helps resolve a century-old riddle
... to form. Neutrinos may even may hold the key as to why normal matter won the battle with antimatter so early after the Big Bang. This is to do with how the antineutrino in less inclined to change 'flavour' (from...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... of reaching such exhaust velocities: fusion and antimatter propulsion. Fusion propulsion exploits the energy that ...channelled and therefore do not generate thrust. The second antimatter propulsion concept is based on heating up propellant via gamma...
13 April 2016
The mystery of neutrino mass to be solved by a calcium isotope
... universe. Majorana neutrinos would have allowed for the creation of more matter than antimatter in the first moments after the Big Bang. After presenting their findings with calcium-48, the researchers ...
17 November 2017
Excess positrons immersing Earth have unknown origin
...candidate that was once used to explain this excess in antimatter particles is now being ruled out. Positrons are subatomic ... a positive charge, I.e they are the antiparticle (or antimatter) counterpart to the electron (which has a negative charge...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... included Freeman Dyson’s Orion study, based on nuclear pulse propulsion, and the works of Leslie Robert Shepherd.2 Antimatter, predicted by Paul Dirac in 1928 and discovered by Carl D. Anderson in 1933, was the beginning of the study of the...
