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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.

08/01/09

Weak neutral current

The Gargamelle collaboration at the European laboratory CERN began operating its bubble chamber in the early 1970s, shooting neutrinos through 12,000 liters of Freon, a heavy liquid.

08/01/09

Takuya Uruno: Kasoku Kids

In Japanese, Takuya Urunos first name means "pioneer." In his 25-year career as a professional Manga artist, Uruno has been steadfast in living up to the title.

08/01/09

South Pole physics is not for wimps

Ed Wu has never been to space, but he probably has a better idea of what it's like than the rest of us.

08/01/09

Hitoshi Murayama: The Emperor's Tea

When I assumed the position of director of the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), my smart-mouthed friends joked that I became the Director of the Universe.

08/01/09

He stalks rare prey for its own good

Tom Peterson loves hunting season. He spends his lunch hours scouting the best spots, and weekends lurking around the edges of Fermilab's ponds and moving as silently as he can through old fields.

08/01/09

A scrub+ for SNO+

Imagine a house-sized acrylic fishbowl inside a giant, shiny, disco-ball-like sphere, suspended in a cavern as tall as a 10-story building. Now imagine climbing around inside that pitch-dark fishbowl with a squeegee and a flashlight.

Illustration of a jet breaking the sound barrier

08/01/09

Cherenkov light

Cherenkov light is the optical equivalent of a sonic boom.

08/01/09

Physics talk 2.0

From his California office, Doug Dechow stretched out on a grassy hill and listened to a particle physics lecture taking place in Chicago.

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