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Nature 420, 731 (19 December 2002) | doi:10.1038/420731b

Antihydrogen: Holding up a mirror to physics' world view

Geoff Brumfiel

Atoms from the mirror world of antimatter were captured and analysed for the first time this year. Two teams at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics near Geneva, have created large numbers of long-lived antihydrogen atoms, which can be used to test fundamental theories about the Universe.