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Interactive timeline charts 20 years of ALICE history

An interactive timeline from the ALICE collaboration tells the story of the detector from its design to current upgrade work

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01 July, 2013

An ATLAS detector that fits on your desk

The toy company LEGO will consider building a miniature ATLAS detector after the design gained 10,000 votes on a fan website

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21 June, 2013
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21 June, 2013

CERN’s ISOLTRAP reveals new magic in the atomic nucleus

The ISOLTRAP collaboration has measured the mass of exotic calcium nuclei using a new instrument installed at the ISOLDE facility at CERN

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19 June, 2013

Alice in Particleland: A science comic in the making

Belgian high-school students team up with a Dutch comic-book artist to create a comic about the fascinating world of subatomic particles

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23 May, 2013

Virtual Visits bring ATLAS to Algeria

A series of ATLAS Virtual Visits this week are inspiring physics students in North Africa

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23 May, 2013
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23 May, 2013

ALICE physics week in Padova

The 8th Physics Week of the ALICE Collaboration will take place in Padova, Italy, from 19-24 May 2013

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17 May, 2013
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17 May, 2013

A fundamental property of the rarest element on Earth

An international team of physicists at ISOLDE have for the first time measured the ionization potential of the rare radioactive element astatine

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14 May, 2013

LHCb first results from proton-lead run

At the "Workshop on proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC" in Trento, Italy, the LHCb collaboration discussed first results from the proton-lead run

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10 May, 2013
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10 May, 2013

First observations of short-lived pear-shaped atomic nuclei

An international team at the ISOLDE radioactive-beam facility at CERN has shown that some atomic nuclei can assume asymmetric, "pear" shapes

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08 May, 2013

Participants and spectators at the heavy-ion fireball

How ALICE finds out how much of a heavy ion takes part in a collision

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02 May, 2013