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03/01/05

Brian Schwartz: Foreign graduate students

A December 2004 front-page article in the New York Times featured the headline, "U.S.

03/01/05

Sally Dawson: Prioritizing our scientific questions

We are at a special time in particle physics. The past decade has been full of discoveries.

03/01/05

EPP2010

The National Academy of Sciences has charged a group of scientists, the "Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century" (EPP2010) committee, with "prioritizing the scientific quest

02/01/05

Robert Bluhm: The death of common sense

Prior to the development of special relativity, the laws of physics and the laws of common sense were practically one and the same. Measurements of space and time were absolute.

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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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