Nature Podcast

How to transport antimatter — stick it on the back of a van

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00:46 An antimatter delivery van takes its first road tripResearchers have developed a portable antimatter containment device and tested it by putting it in a truck and driving it around CERN. Their system could represent a big step forward in efforts to take particles made at CERN’s ‘antimatter factory’ and transport them to other labs, something currently impossible due to antimatter being destroyed upon contact with matter. The team showed the feasibility of their approach by using the system to safely transport particles of matter and are now looking to adapt it to ferry antimatter particles.Research article: Leonhardt et al.11:45 Research HighlightsHow a tradition of female diving on a South Korean island might have shaped the genomes of the island’s population, and a poison-dart frog that curiously seems to be monogamous.Research Highlight: How Korea’s female divers have adapted to cold plungesResearch Highlight: A ‘hidden gem’ of the Amazon is a frog with odd habits13:46 The mathematics of a near-