Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

Family ties run deep

Mark Hanhardt spent his childhood exploring caverns and watching his dad, who was a miner, come home from work covered in dust. Still, he had no interest in working underground.

Back-of-the-banana physics

Physicists have a reputation—self-made or otherwise—for discussing physics on any available surface.

LHC detector project a big leap for Pakistan

For most scientists, membership in a Large Hadron Collider experiment is a ticket to research at a frontier of particle physics. For Hafeez Hoorani, it also marked his country’s first step toward building a tradition of experimental particle physics research.

Fan to Leon: Please sign my Higgs boson

Who would you drive 10½ hours to see? The Grateful Dead? The Dalai Lama? What about an old, friendly guy who reads a lot and is really good at physics?

Engineers flip for magnets

Forget pocket protectors: Flippy magnets are the low-tech tools that some high-tech engineers won’t be caught without.

Redshift

Strong focusing

In the summer of 1952, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Cosmotron particle accelerator were preparing for a visit from scientists planning their own, more powerful, accelerator at a new European lab called CERN.

Kate Nichols: Color by physics

An artist's search for a new way to create color could compel science to ask a few new questions of its own.