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05/09/18
Nature

What is dark matter?

An elusive substance that permeates the universe exerts many detectable gravitational influences yet eludes direct detection.

05/09/18
Nature

What Is spacetime?

Physicists believe that at the tiniest scales, space emerges from quanta. What might these building blocks look like?

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ALICE with one door open

Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

12/09/25
Sarah Charley

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.

01/01/06

Particle physics goes to school

Students around the world are familiar with the periodic table of elements, a chart that outlines how protons, neutrons, and electrons form more than 100 different types of atoms.

Logbook of November 2005
11/01/05

Inventing the web

The idea for the World Wide Web first appeared in a memo dubbed “vague but exciting.”

11/01/05

Doctor Atomic: A manhattan project opera

Particle physics has been getting its due in the theater world with the recent plays Copenhagen and QED, which celebrate the lives and work of famous physicists. Now the field is being paid the highest musical and artistic compliment.

An illustration of a grid
11/01/05

The grid

The grid provides computing power on demand.

11/01/05

Hot computers

Computing centers are hot--–literally. At least, they are in the absence of extensive cooling systems. With an increasing number of computers installed at scientific labs nationwide, the efficiency of those cooling systems is becoming much more important.

11/01/05

LIGO analysis

Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) are hoping to catch a wave a gravitational one.

11/01/05

Robert Lang: Much more than paper hats

Artist Robert Lang has folded intricate paper sculptures from flat sheets that, in some cases, started out over nine feet long. He uses the same method many of us used to make cranes and party hats in elementary school–a series of precise folds. But Lang’s designs are far more complex.

11/01/05

Meet the Grid

Today's cutting-edge scientific projects are larger, more complex, and more expensive than ever. Grid computing provides the resources that allow researchers to share knowledge, data, and computer processing power across boundaries.

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