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05/01/07

Black holes for beginners

I read the nice article by Jennifer Ouellette "Beginner's mind" in the March 2007 edition with great interest.

05/01/07

Aspirins in times of war

I know of the use of aspirins as water detectors (Apr 07) from my year and a half (June 70 to –Jan 72) in the US Army in the Republic of South Vietnam on the receiving end.

05/01/07

Nice ice

A recent article by scientists in Leeds and Oslo featured in CERN's "Picked Up for You" might have an answer to Terry Anderson's ice-related question in March's symmetry.

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.