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03/31/20
CERN Courier

European strategy update postponed

Acknowledging that the COVID-19 outbreak threatens the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of people, and affects the everyday lives of millions, the CERN Council has now agreed that it would not be appropriate to release the ESG update.

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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.

02/01/11

Young researcher tackles world's biggest camera

When David Lawrence joined the Brookhaven High School Research Program at age 15, he said he wanted a project challenging enough to catch the attention of the judges at the Intel Science Talent Search.

02/01/11

SLAC's science data really sticks

To keep track of the roughly 35 papers the BaBar collaboration will publish in the next year, the high-tech experiment went low-tech this summer. It transferred data from computers to Post-it notes.

02/01/11

Neutrino fishermen catch whales, too

Biologist Gianni Pavan joined the Ocean Noise Detection Experiment in 2000 to help physicist Giorgio Riccobene distinguish various marine background noises from the sounds neutrinos make when they interact with ocean water.

02/01/11

Way of the metallurgist

For the Japanese samurai, the long-bladed katana sword embodied honor and the prestige of their warrior class. For Jon Kellar, metallurgical engineering professor at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, it embodies a perfect design project for his students.

Logbook: February 2011
02/01/11

OPERA’s first tau neutrino

On May 31, 2010, at Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, Antonio Ereditato, spokesperson of the OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion tRacking Apparatus) experiment, reported to the scientific community the detection of the first candidate event for the appearance of a tau neutrino in a be

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02/01/11

Discovery

Discovery is the process of uncovering something new. 

02/01/11

Crossing the valley of death

Many a promising innovation dies on its way from the research lab to the commercial market. But with help from government or industry, the survival odds increase.

02/01/11

The LSST's supersized sweep of the sky

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which will plumb a bigger volume of the universe than any survey before it, isn't just a challenge for astronomers. It also requires the expertise of high-energy physicists, who play key roles in advancing the flourishing field of survey astronomy.

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