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Meher Antia The space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to blast into orbit next week in order to test a device called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a $33 million experiment to search for particles of antimatter left over from the big bang. The detector will ultimately spend 3 years on the International Space Station. But many astrophysicists give the device almost no chance of finding its chief quarry.
