Published Mar 24, 2026, 1:48 AM ET · Updated 8 months ago · 2 sources

On the road with antiprotons: CERN runs delicate test on transporting ultrasensitive antimatter

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GENEVA (AP) — Scientists in Geneva are taking some antiprotons out for a spin — a very delicate one — in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive. Watch live as scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, conduct a test of transporting volatile antimatter. If this so-called antimatter comes into contact with actual matter — even for a fraction of an instant — it will be annihilated in a quick flash of energy. So experts at the European Organization for Nuclear Resear