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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.

04/25/19

It takes a village

Building a particle physics laboratory requires more than physicists.

Scientists look on as giant hand comes down with shape that will fit into any available holes.

04/23/19

Falsifiability and physics

Can a theory that isn’t completely testable still be useful to physics?

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04/18/19

What gravitational waves can say about dark matter

Scientists think that, under some circumstances, dark matter could generate powerful enough gravitational waves for equipment like LIGO to detect.

Long-exposure photo showing many colors of light

04/16/19

A collision of light

One of the latest discoveries from the LHC takes the properties of photons beyond what your electrodynamics teacher will tell you in class.

Illustration showing the pentaquark as a molecule

04/11/19

LHCb results add clues to pentaquark mystery

A re-examination of a particle discovered in 2015 has scientists debating its true identity.

Glowing ring that is the first image of light at the event horizon of a black hole

04/10/19

Astronomers capture first image of a black hole

The image reveals the black hole at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.

An illustration depicting experimental theorists

04/09/19

All hands on deck

Some theorists have taken to designing their own experiments to broaden the search for dark matter.

An illustration of the three featured scientists

04/02/19

Considering the whole student

Meet three scientists connected by the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program.

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