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Published online 22 November 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051121-4
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Did matter-antimatter mix yield molecules?
Positronium pairing points to a new kind of chemistry.
Physicists suspect they have created the first molecules from atoms that meld matter with antimatter.
Allen Mills of the University of California, Riverside, and his colleagues say they have seen telltale signs of positronium molecules, made from two positronium atoms1.
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