Why is there so much more matter than antimatter in the universe we can see? Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The ...

Northwestern physicists created a one-positron quantum cyclotron, resolving individual changes in the antimatter particle’s ...

Antimatter quantum cyclotron: Northwestern scientists trapped a single positron for months at near absolute zero, resolving individual quantum energy steps. This first-ever one-positron quantum ...

A preclinical study used advanced MRI techniques to measure the delivery of various-sized contrast agents to the brain.

Physicists at Northwestern University have held a single positron -- the antimatter twin of the electron -- in a trap for ...

Ultra-cold Penning trap experiment paves way for precision electron–positron magnetic moment comparison and probes cosmic ...

Unlike classical physics, quantum mechanics generally cannot tell us exactly what will happen in an individual event. Instead ...

The cyclotron lab creates atoms called radionuclides that can help clinicians diagnose and treat different types of cancers ...

Scientists have captured virus-like particles assembling themselves step by step, revealing how a surprisingly simple process ...

Late at night, are you sighing with your science workbook open on your desk?"The electrolysis of water is 2H₂O = 2H₂ + O₂, ...

Quantum-chemical calculations indicate that sulfuric acid controls the earliest formation of molecular clusters, while ...

In this challenging, mixed-up, ever-so-slightly scary world, attempting to be better is the best any of us can do ...