Like many Americans, my taste for the sciences was soured at a young age. I recall lugging around heavy, impersonal textbooks full of confusing diagrams and bizarre word problems.
In October 2006, the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) provided a new roadmap for a broad and very exciting science agenda in particle physics research.
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.