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Scientists Make Antimatter!
9am PDT
September 20, 2002

Cold anti-hydrogen atoms have been made, stored, and detected for the first time at ATHENA! We talked to the ATHENA team about this groundbreaking, historic event in particle physics and learned what's next.

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Cold anti-hydrogen atoms have been made, stored, and detected for the first time in an experiment at CERN.

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