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- CERN experiment traps antimatter atoms for 1000 seconds
- New solar system formation models indicate that Jupiter's foray robbed Mars of mass
- CERN group traps antihydrogen atoms for more than 16 minutes
- Physicists store antimatter atoms for 1,000 seconds -- and still counting
- Upping the anti: Canadian researchers instrumental in game-changing antimatter study
| CERN experiment traps antimatter atoms for 1000 seconds Posted: 05 Jun 2011 04:14 PM PDT In a new paper, the ALPHA experiment at CERN reports that it has succeeded in trapping antimatter atoms for over 16 minutes: long enough to begin to study their properties in detail. ALPHA is part of a broad programme at CERN's antiproton decelerator investigating the mysteries of one of nature's most elusive substances.  |
| New solar system formation models indicate that Jupiter's foray robbed Mars of mass Posted: 05 Jun 2011 10:24 AM PDT Planetary scientists have long wondered why Mars is only about half the size and one-tenth the mass of Earth. As next-door neighbors in the inner solar system, probably formed about the same time, why isn't Mars more like Earth and Venus in size and mass? A new paper provides the first cohesive explanation and, by doing so, reveals an unexpected twist in the early lives of Jupiter and Saturn as well.  |
| CERN group traps antihydrogen atoms for more than 16 minutes Posted: 05 Jun 2011 10:24 AM PDT The ALPHA experiment at CERN last year reported trapping 38 antihydrogen atoms for 0.1 seconds each. They've gotten better. In a run late last year, they captured more than 100 for up to 1,000 seconds each, enough to start long-awaited experiments to determine the energy levels of antiatoms. They also plan gravitational experiments to see if matter and antimatter have the same properties.  |
| Physicists store antimatter atoms for 1,000 seconds -- and still counting Posted: 05 Jun 2011 10:24 AM PDT Physicists with the international ALPHA Collaboration at CERN in Geneva have succeeded in storing a total of 309 antihydrogen atoms, some for as long as 1,000 seconds (almost 17 minutes) or even longer -- more than enough time to perform meaningful scientific experiments on confined anti-atoms.  |
| Upping the anti: Canadian researchers instrumental in game-changing antimatter study Posted: 05 Jun 2011 10:13 AM PDT Science fiction is fast approaching science fact as researchers are progressing rapidly toward "bottling" antimatter. Physicists with the ALPHA experiment at CERN report that they have succeeded in storing antimatter atoms for over 16 minutes.  |
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