Note that in the article linked above, no real matter is created, just configurations that &quot;act&quot; as matter.<p>However, from [1]:<p>&gt; [...] scientists at Imperial College London (including a visiting physicist from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics) think they’ve figured out how to turn energy directly into matter [...] Their article in Nature Photonics proposes that a new kind of collider be built, one that smashes photons instead of protons, as at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN where the Higgs boson was discovered last year.<p>Of course, this probably requires much more energy.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;paulrodgers&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;19&#x2F;einstein-was-right-you-can-turn-energy-into-matter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;paulrodgers&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;19&#x2F;einstein-...</a>