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08/01/07

Non-dark energy

With regard to your story on dark energy (May 2007): Please explain the amount of known energy there is in the universe.

08/01/07

Particle sudoku: Solution

Did you find last month's sudoku tough? Word from our readers is that the puzzle in the Jun/Jul 07 issue of symmetry was much more difficult than a regular sudoku.

08/01/07

Contest: Where has your symmetry been?

Our readers live in all parts of the globe, from Alaska to Wyoming; from Argentina to Zimbabwe. But when a copy of symmetry lands in a mailbox, that's often not the end of its journey.

08/01/07

Andrew Lankford: Fermilab steering group

When Fermilab Director Pier Oddone asked me to join a group to consider possible intermediate-term accelerator-based physics opportunities at Fermilab in case construction of the International Line

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.