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03/01/06

Female-friendly physics departments

This month, thousands of college seniors will be deciding which graduate school to attend. An important issue for female students concerns the climate for women in the various departments.

03/01/06

Chinese high-energy physics

In your recent editorial (Feb. 2006), you mention the upgrade of the facilities at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in China, but do not give details of the BEPCII/BESIII construction.

03/01/06

Melissa Alexander: The beauty of Super-K

Recently I discovered that one of the most beautiful expressions of Japanese craftsmanship is neither a vase in a Tokyo museum nor a carving in a Kyoto temple.

03/01/06

James Gillies: CERN strategy

CERN, the laboratory, has its home outside Geneva, Switzerland, but CERN, the organization, is a much broader collaboration, involving all of Europe.

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ALICE with one door open

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.