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CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe

A portable containment device that can be dropped on a truck.

But that's changed a bit in recent years, as CERN has set up a facility that produces and traps antimatter, allowing for extensive studies of its properties, including entire anti-atoms. Since it was tackling that problem anyway, CERN decided to make a shipping container for antimatter, allowing it to be put on a truck and potentially taken to labs throughout Europe. Two internal cranes in the facility, along with a heavy-duty four-wheeled cart, moved the container to a loading dock, where it was transferred to a truck and taken for a spin around the CERN campus at Meyrin.

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