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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.

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07/22/25

LHC scientists find relics of early universe living on in particle spins

Scientists on the ATLAS experiment explored the polarization of W bosons to test the Higgs mechanism and gain a deeper understanding of the first moments after the Big Bang.

07/17/25

A tasty celebration of the tau neutrino

On July 21, 2000, the DONUT collaboration at Fermilab announced the detection of tau neutrinos for the first time. Here are a few ideas for celebrating 25 years of the most elusive of elusive particles.

Artist’s impression of the short-lived union of a top quark and a top antiquark formed by the exchange of gluons

07/08/25

Elusive romance of top-quark pairs observed at the LHC

The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed an unforeseen feature in the behaviour of top quarks that suggests that these heaviest of all elementary particles form a fleeting union.

06/23/25

Ever-changing universe revealed in first imagery from NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The world’s largest digital camera brings the night sky to life like never before.

06/17/25

What’s next for European physics?

Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research.

Conceptual illustration of people catching stars in glass jars

06/10/25

The algorithms that help scientists sort through a universe of change

Astronomers use brokers to identify which signals to pursue in an endless stream of alerts.

Conceptual illustration of a woman surrounded by film strips of images

06/05/25

Dialing gravitational lensing research up to 11

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy's Office of Science, will add an unprecedented amount of cosmological data to the study of the structure and expansion of the universe.

06/03/25

Muon g-2 announces most precise measurement of the magnetic anomaly of the muon

The experiment's third and final result, based on the last three years of data, is in perfect agreement with previous results, further solidifying the experimental world average.

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