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By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website 16 April 2020 Image copyrightKamioka Observatory / ICRR / Uni TokyoImage captionThe Super Kamiokande detector consists of a cylindrical steel tank holding 50,000 tonnes of purified water. The detector wall is covered in photo-sensors known as photo-multiplier tubes (PMTs)Stars, galaxies, planets, pretty much everything that makes up our everyday lives owes its existence to a cosmic quirk.The nature of this quirk, which allowed matter to dominate the Universe at the expense of antimatter, remains a mystery.Now, results from an experiment in Japan could help researchers solve the puzzle - one of the biggest in science.It hinges on a difference in the way matter and antimatter particles behave.The world that's familiar to us - including all the everyday objects we can touch - is made up of matter. At tiny scales, this matter is composed of atoms and these atoms are in turn composed of sub-atomic particles, such as electrons, protons and ne…