Briefing Chat: How physicists successfully trapped the electron's antimatter equivalent
Episode · Oct 23, 2026
Nature Podcast
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Podcast, Science Friday
Hosted by Flora Lichtman
Gerald Gabrielse explains how trapping a positron in a vacuum at very low temperatures permits precise measurements of antimatter. The conversation with Flora Lichtman examines a one-positron quantum cyclotron, the practical challenge of keeping antimatter away from ordinary matter, and why comparisons between electron and positron properties can test fundamental physics.