Finally, the transition from RapidWeaver to Eleventy is done and the website you look at only depends on some of the original RW style files. Slowly as time permits, we will move away from those, too. The maintenance and deployment follows CI/CD practices with a workflow set up in GitHub. This is the first blog entry which is deployed following this new practice. I am sure I may have some dead links in there, so just let me know if you find any.

The Rice Heavy Ion Group website (yes, the one that you are looking at now) has undergone an important transition. For any of our viewers nothing (should have) changed. But, under the hood we migrated from RapidWeaver's framework to a newer environment based on Eleventy. This will make future maintenance much easier, as well as provide native version control through a dedicated git repository.

Much of the transition involved long and patient discussions between FG and his new friend Gemini. We did not always agree, but the end result looks pretty good.

A collection of news releases concerning our recent paper to Nature Communications.

Scientific American - Nov. 15 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-create-3-3-trillion-degree-particle-soup-to-mimic-the-universe/

BNL Press Release: https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=122624

Rice University: https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice-physicists-probe-quark-gluon-plasma-temperatures-helping-paint-more-detailed-picture

A couple of back-to-back features in the recent Rice Magazine with YouTube videos in which you can see me enthusiastically waving my hands. 👋😀👋

• The Heart of Matter: Rice researchers are part of a decades-long, international scientific experiment peering into the beginnings of the universe.
• Brilliang Minds, Different Perspectives: The Rice Global India Initiative brings two worlds together to create a powerful research ecosystem.

This was an interesting interview with Physics World. Explaining the relevance of a critical point in layman's terms …

https://physicsworld.com/a/hints-of-a-boundary-between-phases-of-nuclear-matter-found-at-rhic/