In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. This achievement features technolo... Read more
An international team of physicists has published ground-breaking research on the decay of subatomic particles called kaons – which could change how scientists understand the formation of th... Read more
Photon torpedoes come after utopia, at least in Star Trek. Imagining a universe centuries ahead of our own time and technology, the long-running sci-fi shows explored philosophy, morality, a... Read more
As Douglas Adams said, “Space is Big. Really Big.” And that’s the major obstacle for traveling between the stars. But a new proposal published in the Journal of the British Interplanet... Read more
Antimatter propulsion is the Holy Grail of spaceflight. When matter and antimatter react, the energy produced is several billion times larger than the thermomechanical energy resulting from... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Generating Matter and Antimatter from Nothing Under just the right conditions — which involve an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a two-mile-long particle accele... Read more