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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.

08/05/13

Scientists compete in first physics slam on ice

Six scientists battled in a Minnesota hockey arena to be named the best physics entertainer.

08/02/13

The tale of Fermilab’s ‘elephant doors’

A set of twin doors take on two very different purposes at Fermilab and Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo.

Feature of Bill Fontana "Acoustic Time Travel"

07/30/13

CERN artist-in-residence develops ear for physics

Sound artist Bill Fontana taps into the music of the Large Hadron Collider.

Triptych showing three different pieces of accelerator art

07/23/13

From accelerator to art

Fermilab physicist Todd Johnson spends his work and vacation hours with accelerators. What he produces during each are two very different things.

07/18/13

Real talk: Everything is made of fields

Theorist Sean Carroll thinks it’s time you learned the truth: All of the particles you know—including the Higgs—are actually fields.

07/16/13

Force carriers

Particles communicate with one another through force carriers.

07/09/13

Detecting opportunity, in particle physics and beyond

Gunnar Maehlum is a businessman who retains the innovative and critical thinking he learned in particle physics.

Photo of Scott Fahlman holding smiley face sign

07/08/13

Physics and the birth of the emoticon

Carnegie Mellon University alumni trace the origin of the smiley to a group of computer scientists discussing a physics puzzle in 1982.

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