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Scientific American

April 1, 1996

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A Smattering of Antimatter

Physicists hope to get antihydrogen to live longer than 40 nanoseconds

By Philip Yam

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Philip Yam is the managing editor of ScientificAmerican.com, responsible for the overall news content online. He began working at the magazine in 1989, first as a copyeditor and then as a features editor specializing in physics. He is the author of The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting and Other Prion Diseases.

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 274 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “A Smattering of Antimatter” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 274 No. 4 (), p. 26
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0496-26
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