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UC-Riverside Physicists Discover New Way to Produce Antimatter-containing Atom

July 11, 2011

Physicists at the University of California, Riverside, report that they have discovered a new way to create positronium, an exotic and short-lived atom that could help answer what happened to antimatter in the universe, and why nature favored matter over antimatter at the universe's creation. The method works at almost any temperature--including very low temperatures. Full Story

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University of California, Riverside

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