François de Rose, French ambassador, president of the CERN Council from 1957 to 1960 and subsequently a CERN Council delegate, passed away in Paris, France, aged 103.
When scientists jubilantly announced that a telescope at the South Pole had detected ripples in space from the very beginning of time, the reverberations went far beyond the potential validation of astronomers’ most cherished model of the big bang.
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.