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10/01/05

Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics

How deep down does Bruce Schumm want to take us?

10/01/05

Kathleen O'Reilly: Meet Mickey

Could a romance heroine cut it as an astrophysicist? That was the question I had to answer two years ago when I started working on my romance novel, It Should Happen To You.

10/01/05

SLAC Summer Institute: Relativity contest

This year, the SLAC Summer Institute, a two-week-long series of physics lectures for young scientists, focused on gravity and Einstein's theories of relativity.

10/01/05

John Womersley: An open letter to the US HEP community

I have spent the past year at the Department of Energy in Washington, DC, as Scientific Advisor to Robin Staffin, the Associate Director for High Energy Physics.

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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.

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