Only a year ago I wrote about CERN, the large hadron collider coming back online after repairs.
CERN Scientists announced recently that they had had some amazing success. They figured out how to trap atoms of antimatter. Yes, I said antimatter. The stuff that, if it comes into contact with matter, is destroyed instantly in a violent burst of energy.
They caught 38 antihydrogen atoms in a magnetic trap and held them long enough to study them. When they had captured them in the past they had immediately been destroyed by touching the matter on the side of the container.
One of the scientists said "This will help us understand the structure of space and time. For reasons that no one yet understands, nature ruled out antimatter... this inspires us to work that much harder to see if antimatter holds some secret."
Look for lots more exciting discoveries from CERN!
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