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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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05/27/25

When the universe answers with silence

With big outstanding questions and little hints of new physics, physicists are now rethinking some of their most fundamental assumptions.

05/13/25

LHC near-miss collisions turn lead into gold

In a recent study, ALICE scientists measured the way that lead ions colliding in the LHC sometimes transform into gold and other new nuclei.

Illustration of a giant toddler on a trike.

05/06/25

The freckled universe

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy evolution.

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04/29/25

Spot the difference

LHCb’s discovery of proton-like particles behaving differently than their antimatter counterparts brings scientists one step closer to finding out why antimatter disappeared in the early universe.