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We Could Get Closer to Explaining Why Matter Exists—Scientists Trapped an Antimatter Particle for Months

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Researchers have held a positron, the antimatter counterpart of an electron, for months and controlled its quantum energy states. That achievement opens a path to a precise comparison with electrons that could help investigate why our universe contains so much more matter than antimatter.

Making an elusive particle controllable gives scientists a new experimental foothold in a mystery that our best-established particle physics theory cannot explain.

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