ISS has detected Antimatter

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#1 ISS has detected Antimatter

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The AMS setup has detected a huge amount of cosmic events apparently - fitting to me that something this impressive was added to the ISS with the final space shuttle voyage.

So yes - AMS has detected quite a few positrons since it came online, which is suggesting a way to detect dark matter.
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