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Fermilab radiation safety physicist William S. Higgins explains how the concept of antimatter first made its way into science fiction.
Using a laser to excite the antiparticles (positrons and antiprotons), scientists can begin to measure the atomic structure of some of the most mysterious material in the universe.
Fermilab's Bill Higgins is an avid science fiction fan and an equally avid researcher. One result is a fascinating pair of articles in the current issue of symmetry: An essay explaining how the ...
Only two days after the Journal of the Academy of Public Health's official launch, Science Magazine criticised it in a news item. A scientist I had recommended as a member of our Academy wrote to me ...
Antimatter — the mysterious substance that's the mirror opposite of matter in most ways — falls downward in gravity like everything else in the universe, a team of physicists reported ...
In the August 2011 issue of Astronomy magazine, science journalist Alexander Hellemans explores these questions and what scientists have learned in the past century about antimatter.
"Antimatter men" haunted comic books and TV science-fiction shows such as "Lost in Space" in the 1960s. On the TV show, the fictional Professor Robinson encountered little more than a nonsensical ...
After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine Popular Science magazine shifted to an all-digital format a couple of years ago, and now even that’s gone.
Googling for SpaceX news? Watch out for AI slop of fake spacecrafts, which is frequently occupying Google's top search and news results.
Just three years after the iconic magazine abandoned its print version and went all-digital, Popular Science is now halting its subscription service entirely. The brand itself will live on — … ...
Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories While the deluge has become a nuisance, the stories are easy to spot. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” one editor ...
If neutrinos behave differently from their antimatter counterparts, it could help explain why our cosmos is full of stuff.