latest news

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.

07/01/05

City-states of science

Tomorrow's particle physics experiments are redrawing the map for scientific collaboration. Although the field has long been accustomed to large groups of scientists, life in the new CERN collaborations will surely be different.

06/30/05

Extra dimensions

In 1998, theorists Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum met in a coffee shop in Boston to discuss how extra dimensions of space would change the predictions of particle theories.

05/01/05

Solar neutrinos

Deep in the Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, South Dakota, during the early 1970s, Ray Davis monitored a 100,000-gallon tank of perchloroethylene, a chlorine-rich dry-cleaning chemical.

05/01/05

Bubble chambers are back

Bubble chambers, once at the forefront of particle detection and then relegated to the history books, are coming back.

05/01/05

Springtime at Daresbury

How a quiet, unassuming laboratory in the northwest of England transformed itself into a powerhouse of accelerator physics and technology.

05/01/05

Frolicking bison

As spring arrived, so did the kids. Their knees wobbly and eyes wide open, they stayed close to their moms. Dad, weighing more than 2500 pounds, made sure that no harm came the babies' way.

05/01/05

Chris Henschke: HyperCollider

In 1905, Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity and overthrew the notions of absolute space and time. His later General Theory of Relativity was so revolutionary that even he had trouble accepting its full implications.

05/01/05

Breathing accelerator

As the sun rises each day, warming the grounds and buildings of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the entire SPEAR3 synchrotron facility expands in response.

View full archive