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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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12/08/23

Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research

In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report.

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11/30/23

What is the electroweak force?

Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case.

Illustration featuring a DUNE hard hat and a book entitled "Fundamental Theories"

11/21/23

The theoretical work of preparing for DUNE

Phenomenologists must make precise predictions for what they expect DUNE data to look like.

An illustration of a fisherman sorting his catch

11/14/23

LHC physicists can’t save them all

As upgrades enable the LHC to produce more and more particle collisions, physicists are using machine learning to keep up with the growing task of sorting through everything.

An illustration featuring a model of the solar system

11/07/23

Can we fit the universe in a box?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a computer answer all of the biggest questions in the universe?

10/30/23

Celebrating Dark Matter Day in Latin America

Scientists, artists, communicators and physics fans find creative ways to mark the unofficial holiday devoted to dark matter.

Illustration of people wearing Halloween costumes

10/26/23

Physics fashion and collider couture

Symmetry is back with more physics-themed Halloween costumes.

10/19/23

New map of space precisely measures nearly 400,000 nearby galaxies

The Siena Galaxy Atlas will be a tool for research into how galaxies form and evolve, gravitational waves, dark matter and the structure of our universe.

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