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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.

09/29/15

New discovery? Or just another bump?

For physicists, seeing is not always believing.

Photo of old red dial telephone that says "Rrring!"

09/22/15

Do protons decay?

Is it possible that these fundamental building blocks of atoms have a finite lifetime?

Illustration of wimps coming down from sky

09/17/15

Hitting the neutrino floor

Dark matter experiments are becoming so sensitive, even the ghostliest of particles will soon get in the way.

Illustration of gravity as the bouncer for a club where the Higgs doesn’t fit in with the other particles of the Standard Model

09/15/15

Where the Higgs belongs

The Higgs doesn’t quite fit in with the other particles of the Standard Model of particle physics.

09/09/15

The birth of a black hole, live

Scientists hope to use neutrino experiments to watch a black hole form.

Photo of scientist in clean room underground

09/03/15

Scientists below the surface

How do you get to work when your office is a clean room a mile below ground?

Illustration of "Cosmic Strings" purple strings in space

08/27/15

Looking for strings inside inflation

Theorists from the Institute for Advanced Study have proposed a way forward in the quest to test string theory.

Illustration of man's face reverberating from left to right while eating popcorn

08/25/15

All about supernovae

Exploding stars have an immense capacity to destroy—and create.

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