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A single antimatter particle was held in a trap for months
In a lab in Illinois, physicists captured and tamed a tiny particle of antimatter in a trap with invisible walls.
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In a lab in Illinois, physicists captured and tamed a tiny particle of antimatter in a trap with invisible walls. By studying how the positron behaved, the researchers may soon have a chance to break our best mathematical model of physical reality. The positron is the antimatter counterpart of the electron, which means the two particles have the same mass but the opposite electric charge.
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