STRANGE ANTIMATTER was discovered yesterday at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and we don't mean down the back of the sofa.

Scientists at BNL are trying to rent matter asunder and anger the gods by creating high-energy collision with its Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) particle accelerator. No. Not the one from Ghostbusters.

Here's the science. Scientists reported the discovery of the heaviest known antinucleus and first antinucleus containing an anti-strange quark. BNL claims the antinucleus is a tor, a negatively charged state of antimatter containing an antiproton, an antineutron, and an anti-Lambda particle. It is also the first antinucleus containing an anti-strange quark. We hope you're taking notes.

"This experimental discovery may have unprecedented consequences for our view of the world," commented theoretical physicist Horst Stoecker, Vice President of the Helmholtz Association of German National Laboratories. "This antimatter pushes open the door to new dimensions in the nuclear chart - an idea that just a few years ago, would have been viewed as impossible."

For theoretical physicists, understanding why matter is favoured over antimatter in the universe is a major hurdle. This discovery could unlock the key to exploring "violations of fundamental symmetries between matter and antimatter that occurred in the early universe, making possible the very existence of our world." µ