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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Earth's thunderstorms hurl antimatter into space - Technology & science - MSNBC

"'These signals are the first direct evidence that thunderstorms make antimatter particle beams,' study lead author Michael Briggs, of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said in a statement. Briggs presented his team's results Jan. 10 at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle.

"'I think this is one of the most exciting discoveries in geoscience in a very long time,' Duke University's Steven Cummer, who was not involved in the research, in a press conference. It 'seems like something straight out of science fiction.'"

Full article: Earth's thunderstorms hurl antimatter into space - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - MSNBC.

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