FERMI SPOTS ANTIMATTER IN THUNDERSTORMS

Mother Nature seems to be giving expensive man-made particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider a run for their money these days.

Scientists at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Seattle announced this week that NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has spotted particles of antimatter being flung into space during thunderstorms in the Earth's atmosphere. It's the first direct evidence of a phenomenon that scientists have suspected since 2009... Read More