Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

High schoolers catch some (cosmic) rays

Ben Nachman and several friends climbed out on the roof of Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska, hauling a tangle of wires and what resembled a car-top luggage carrier. The high school juniors weren't pulling some elaborate prank.

Julian Voss-Andreae: Quantum concepts you can touch

Voss-Andreae goes beyond literal representation, infusing his quantum objects with philosophical interpretations.

Around the world in eight goofy minutes

Many a college student has built a room around a sturdy coffee table made from a cast-off wooden cable spool. But when two University of Wisconsin graduate students went to the South Pole they found spools put to a different use: as chariot wheels

A little wine with that physics?

Friends and colleagues of particle physicist Bill Wisniewski know him as a wine connoisseur.

Neutrino oscillation

In June 1998, Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo presented strong evidence that neutrinos behave differently than predicted by the Standard Model of particles: The three known types of neutrinos apparently transform into each other, a phenomenon known as oscillation.

Shielding

Gran Sasso: A tale of physics in the mountains

In an epic story of fairy-tale beauty and world-leading science, human courage and determination confront adversity and Gran Sasso laboratory comes forth to see the stars once more.

Soudan Lab

Just before 7:30 on a bitter-cold morning in northern Minnesota, engineer Jim Beaty begins the last leg of his daily commute. He steps into a dark brown metal box with five coworkers. Someone slides the door closed.