A SWINDON-based research council has helped physicists produce the world's first controlled anti-hydrogen atoms.

The North Star-based Engineering and Physi-cal Sciences Research Council provided £1.2m to the team at the Univer-sity in Wales, Swansea, over the past six years.

Professor Michael Charlton, who was leader of the research, said: "This is a milestone that has opened up new horizons to enable scientists to study symmetry in nature and explore the fundamental laws of physics which govern the universe."