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Antimatter traveled by truck for the first time

Scientists at CERN transported 92 antiprotons eight kilometers across the lab grounds

A truck with a banner reading "Antimatter in motion."

Scientists at CERN transported antimatter in a truck (shown) for the first time.

CERN

By Emily Conover

Special delivery: antimatter.

Scientists have completed the first-ever transport of antimatter by truck. On March 24, researchers carried antiprotons, the negatively charged counterparts of protons, inside a magnetic trap on a truck. The particles, created at the European particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva, traveled about eight kilometers to another site within the lab before the trap was delivered, contents intact.