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Antimatter definitely doesn't fall up, physicists confirm

New Scientist

In a blow for the hopes of antigravity machines, the first ever test of how antimatter responds to gravity confirms it falls down, not up

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Are antimatter stars firing bullets of antihelium at Earth?

Physics World

Fourteen possible antimatter stars (“antistars”) have been flagged up by astronomers searching for the origin of puzzling amounts of antihelium nuclei detected coming from deep space by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ( AMS-02 ) on the International Space Station. The mystery of matter and antimatter.

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Sterile neutrinos ruled out by MicroBooNE, but mysterious excess remains unexplained

Physics World

This left physicists scratching their heads until the late 1990s when experiments in Japan and Canada began finding definitive evidence that a neutrino of one flavour can change into a neutrino of a different flavour – a process called neutrino oscillation. So how do sterile neutrinos fit into all of this?

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How the Daya Bay experiment helped China build a neutrino legacy

Physics World

For Cao, it was a wonderful surprise given it only took 55 days to get a definitive answer to the critically important theta-13 problem, the value of which turned out to be much larger than expected. The transformation rate was surprisingly large, allowing Wang to announce the discovery of a new type of neutrino oscillation.