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Keith Cooper

Large Hadron Collider may be closing in on the universe's missing antimatter

a technician stands near a set of tubes and wires at the large hadron collider

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are closing in on an explanation for why we live in a universe of matter and not antimatter.

Matter and antimatter are two sides of the same coin. Every type of particle has an anti-particle, which is its equal and opposite. For instance, the antimatter equivalent of a negatively charged electron is a positively charged positron. 

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