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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.

03/15/16

A new pair of lenses for the Mayall

Scientists hope the quarter-ton hunks of glass will help them see dark energy’s effects.

03/08/16

Art of Darkness

The Dark Energy Survey’s art show offers a glimpse of the expanding universe.

Field of tau, muon, electron neutrinos with one hidden neutrino

03/01/16

The hidden neutrino

The explanation for some strange experimental results could lie in undiscovered particles called sterile neutrinos.

02/23/16

The ABCs of particle physics

Take an interactive animated journey through the particle physics alphabet.

02/18/16

Casting a net for neutrinos

The KM3NeT experiment will catch the elusive particles using the Mediterranean Sea.

02/16/16

Test of DUNE tech begins

On the road to the world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector, take the “DUNE Buggy.”

02/09/16

Neutrinos on a seesaw

A possible explanation for the lightness of neutrinos could help answer some big questions about the universe.

02/04/16

Weighing the lightest particle

Physicists are using one of the oldest laws of nature to find the mass of the elusive neutrino.

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