Antimatter is a tricky substance to study, not least because it will annihilate any container you try to put it in. But now, physicists at CERN have developed a new antimatter trap that can cool ...

Antimatter, an elusive type of matter that's rare in the universe, has now been trapped for more than 16 minutes — an eternity in particle physics.

To learn about antimatter, you have to catch it first. In November, researchers did just that - for less than a second. Now, they've been able to trap antihydrogen for a record 16 minutes.

Research by my colleagues at Cern and I has produced a way to create, trap and laser-cool antimatter for long enough for us to target a whole new set of more accurate measurements.

Antimatter is believed to play a huge part in the story of our universe. It’s the counterpart to matter: identical in every way ... Research by my colleagues at Cern and I has produced a way to create ...

CERN traps antimatter for long enough to do serious science on it ... The differences are so tiny that the trap will only work if the antihydrogen has an energy of 50μeV ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Creating matter's strange cousin antimatter is tricky, but holding onto it is even trickier. Now scientists are working on a new device that may be able to trap antimatter ...

Scientists at the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA,) a branch of CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research,) have managed to trap atoms of antihydrogen in a magnetic trap for ...

Antimatter, an elusive type of matter that's rare in the universe, has now been trapped for more than 16 minutes — an eternity in particle physics.

Astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour recently attached the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, to the International Space Station. It will attempt to detect the presence of antimatter in ...

Antiproton Decelerator facility on the CERN campus. It's not often that a scientific experiment gets written up as a front-page news story, as well as a science-fiction twist in a best-selling ...

IRA FLATOW, host: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY, I’m Ira Flatow, trying to overcome a bout of laryngitis so see if you can hang in there with me for this program. Our current ideas of the universe say ...