The strangest form of antimatter ever seen has been discovered by the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), at DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. The new particle goes by the jawbreaking name “anti-hyper-triton.” It could not have been found without STAR’s main detector, a time projection chamber invented, designed, and built at Berkeley Lab.

Berkeley Lab scientists Christian Bauer, Delia Milliron, Feng Wang and Feng Yuan were among the 69 recipients from across the nation who will divide up to $85 million in five-year research grants under the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Early Career Research Program.

After more than a year of repairs, the Large Hadron Collider located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland is back on track to create high-energy particle collisions that may yield extraordinary insights into the nature of the physical universe.

The Higgs boson, the last undiscovered fundamental particle of the Standard Model and the one that accounts for the masses of all the others, is still in hiding. But new results from Fermilab mean the race to find it is getting closer.