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PHYSICISTS have finally solved a problem that has baffled many in the field of antimatter research – how to type the symbols for antimatter particles.

In standard physics notation, antimatter particles are represented by a line over a letter or character. But there’s no easy way to do this in a Microsoft Word document, causing no end of headaches for physicists trying to write about antimatter.

Now Don Summers and his colleagues from the University of Mississippi in Oxford have designed a new font specifically for the job. Users can add a line over a character simply by keying in shift-5.…

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