Popular youtube channel minutephysics has just put out a nice video explaining antimatter. Check it out!

Members of the ALPHA Collaboration from Canada were recently awarded the NSERC John C. Polanyi Award for their contributions to ALPHA's sucesses in trapping and measuring antihydrogen atoms.

Physicists have long wondered if the gravitational interaction between antimatter and matter might be different than that between matter and itself. Do atoms made of antimatter, like antihydrogen, fall at a different rate to those made of matter, or might they even fall up – antigravity?

ALPHA 2 Updates

Watch the new video from CERN People!

The first antiprotons were caught last night in the new ALPHA2 catching trap, the first component of the next generation of the ALPHA experiment to be installed.

Once you've trapped antihydrogen what do you do? You measure it!
We report the first resonant quantum transitions in antihydrogen atoms.

Our new octupole is being made at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Look at the video that they've sent us of the work in progress!

ALPHA is featured in a new documentary following life at CERN.

The Carlsberg Foundation of Denmark has awarded a large research grant to ALPHA Spokesperson Professor Jeffrey Hangst of the Aarhus University.