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The race to reveal antimatter’s secrets

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In the shadow of the Large Hadron Collider, six teams are competing to answer one of the Universe’s deepest existential questions.

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    Gibney, E. The race to reveal antimatter’s secrets. Nature 548, 20–23 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/548020a

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