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Is antimatter anti-gravity?

April 30, 2013:

Most physicists suspect that antimatter and normal matter weigh the same, that is, they are affected the same way by gravity. No direct measurements exist, however, that prove they do. UC Berkeley scientists, part of the ALPHA collaboration at CERN, are working on just such an experiment and have some very rough results.

Antihydrogen advances named Breakthrough of the Year

December 20, 2010:

The magazine Physics World named the trapping of antihydrogen by a team that included UC Berkeley physicists the 2010 Breakthrough of the Year. The ALPHA team shared the honor with another team that successfully focused a beam of antihydrogen atoms at CERN.

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