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Jun 17, 2013 05:28 PM EDT

Construction of Antimatter Factory Extension at CERN Started

A ground-breaking ceremony today marked the start of construction of an extension to CERN's antimatter facility. Infrastructure currently housed in the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) hall will be moved into this extension to make space for a new decelerator, the Extra-Low-Energy Antiproton ring (ELENA)...

Majorana Demonstrator is being assembled and stored 4,850 feet beneath the earth's surface in enriched copper to limit the amount of background interference from cosmic rays

May 30, 2013 02:10 PM EDT

Deep Underground Germanium Detectors Deployed to Solve Antimatter Imbalance Mystery

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun delivery of germanium-76 detectors to an underground laboratory in South Dakota in a team research effort that might explain the puzzling imbalance between matter and antimatter generated by the Big Bang.

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02 on ISS

Apr 03, 2013 12:13 PM EDT

Antimatter and Dark Matter Hunters Publish First Results of Space Experiment AMS

The antimatter hunter AMS-2, a module on the International Space Station, is searching for the missing pieces of our Universe. The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter, hinting at a new phenomenon and reveali...

Feb 13, 2013 03:46 PM EST

The Experiment That Uses Lasers to Play With Fat Antimatter

There is an antimatter experiment with huge and super-complex machines that is as exotic as it gets at CERN: it involves 'inflating' an atom with a laser, then slow it down, catch it or bend it around corners. This is going to happen in the AEGIS experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator, where Steph...

Feb 01, 2013 05:39 PM EST

Exotic Particle Science at CERN: Antimatter and Positronium in AEGIS Experiment

One of the several experiments at CERN is AEGIS, which aims to make the first direct measurement of Earth's gravitational effect on antimatter. To do this, the scientists need to first generate a beam of antihydrogen atoms with the right properties, which involves the Antiproton Decelerator to achie...

Jan 16, 2013 11:35 AM EST

Latest Reports from the CERN Antimatter Experiments

Two weeks into 2013, it was reporting time for the antimatter research teams working at CERN, who presented key results of their experiments in 2012, and plans for the New Year.

Jan 05, 2013 02:35 PM EST

International Space Station gearing up for scientific results in 2013

While it was a success in itself to construct the $100 billion space station ISS, and to keep it manned consistently since over a decade now, the on-board laboratories and experimental capabilities are underutilized and didn't yield abundant results until now. Only 72 percent of NASA's science rack...