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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.

07/28/16

The deconstructed Standard Model equation

The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table.

07/27/16

The Atomki anomaly

A result from an experiment in Hungary catches the attention of a group of theorists in the United States.

People in two tired library with books moving through tubes

07/26/16

The most important website in particle physics

The first website to be hosted in the US has grown to be an invaluable hub for open science.

Pokemon GO player in front of Wilson Hall

07/18/16

Pokémon Go shakes up the lab routine

At Fermilab and CERN, students, lab employees and visitors alike are on the hunt for virtual creatures.

07/15/16

The science of proton packs

Ghostbusters advisor James Maxwell explains the science of bustin'.

07/15/16

Who you gonna call? MIT physicists!

As science advisors, physicists Lindley Winslow and Janet Conrad gave the Ghostbusters crew a taste of life in the lab.

LINAC, SYNCHROTRON, CYCLOTRON header image

07/12/16

A primer on particle accelerators

What’s the difference between a synchrotron and a cyclotron, anyway?

Gamma rays are the most energetic type of light

07/05/16

Incredible hulking facts about gamma rays

From lightning to the death of electrons, the highest-energy form of light is everywhere.

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