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Scientists from CERN’s BASE experiment transported a trap containing 92 antiprotons across the laboratory’s main site on March 23, 2026, marking the first successful truck transport of trapped antimatter at CERN. The portable cryogenic trap remained operational during and after the move, demonstrating that antiprotons can be relocated for future high-precision measurements in lower-noise laboratories.
A neural network tool developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) analyzed nearly 100 million cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive in just two and a half days, identifying about 1 400 anomalous objects – more than 800 never previously catalogued. Several dozen of these defied classification altogether, showing the potential and the limits of AI in astronomical discovery.
AI tools trained on global seismic data can forecast the risk and location of aftershocks within seconds of an earthquake, according to a study published on November 25, 2025, in Earth, Planets and Space.
Researchers have created a new AI framework that achieved 60.94% greater stability in decision accuracy compared to judgment-only AI systems, and outperformed human operators by 38.93%. The codebase is openly available and evaluated on CrisisMMD, xBD, and RescueNet datasets, with a public web app used to gather human responses.
