This past Thursday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research announced that it had successfully produced and trapped atoms of anti-hydrogen, allowing scientists to begin comparing matter and antimatter and finally allowing us to obtain transporter technology for home use.
Read more on this breakthrough here. The first paragraph of CERN’s press release provides a link to the full report in Nature (but it requires a subscription):
"Geneva, 17 November 2010. The ALPHA experiment at CERN1 has taken an important step forward in developing techniques to understand one of the Universe’s open questions: is there a difference between matter and antimatter? In a paper published in Nature today, the collaboration shows that it has successfully produced and trapped atoms of antihydrogen. This development opens the path to new ways of making detailed measurements of antihydrogen, which will in turn allow scientists to compare matter and antimatter…
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