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Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector

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Published: December 9, 2025 14:37

In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC prepares to start its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.

Photons light the way

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Published: December 1, 2025 18:19

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest scales.

Dark Matter: A Worldwide Search

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Published: November 19, 2025 18:35

Something is out there. As far as scientists know, just 15% of the matter in the universe is the ordinary kind we can see. The other 85%, called dark matter, remains beyond detection, invisibly affecting the movements of galaxies and subtly warping our…

Remote eyes on the sky: Inside SLAC’s Rubin control room

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Published: September 23, 2025 12:50

With survey operations set to begin this fall, the Rubin control room at SLAC will serve as a key hub for training and remote observing support for the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

DUNE experiment prepares for supernova watch

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Published: September 16, 2025 13:00

In addition to revealing characteristics of mysterious particles called neutrinos, the massive DUNE experiment could help astronomers find a supernova right as it begins.

Into the quantum realm

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Published: August 19, 2025 13:26

New technologies are enabling scientists to tackle previously elusive physics problems.

‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour

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Published: August 5, 2025 13:00

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

Local photographer captures physics history in the Black Hills

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Published: July 29, 2025 14:54

For more than two decades, amateur photographer Dale Carter has documented the physicists who come to the Black Hills for their research.

A quantum leap for antimatter measurements

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Published: July 23, 2025 15:08

The demonstration of the first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries.

LHC scientists find relics of early universe living on in particle spins

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Published: July 22, 2025 13:00

Scientists on the ATLAS experiment explored the polarization of W bosons to test the Higgs mechanism and gain a deeper understanding of the first moments after the Big Bang.

A tasty celebration of the tau neutrino

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Published: July 17, 2025 13:00

On July 21, 2000, the DONUT collaboration at Fermilab announced the detection of tau neutrinos for the first time. Here are a few ideas for celebrating 25 years of the most elusive of elusive particles.