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11/01/08

More physics license plates

I did not respond in time for the license plate issue, but I do have a good one from an old photo taken while on leave at Caltech in the '70s.

11/01/08

Kate McAlpine: Rapping physics

A good portion of the public is curious about what is going on in particle physics right now, and we have an ever-longer list of ways for them to find out—from lab newsletters to personal blogs, po

11/01/08

Starting up the Large Hadron Collider

On September 10, physicists and physics enthusiasts around the world watched expectantly as CERN attempted to circulate particle beams in the Large Hadron Collider for the first time.

Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

12/09/25

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.