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The ALICE and LHCb collaborations set out their plans for major upgrades that will enable physicists to explore extreme nuclear matter and precision flavour physics at the High-Luminosity LHC, while theorists Veronica Sanz and Lenny Susskind reinforce the importance of fundamental exploration for its own sake. Plus: highlights from CERN’s CLEAR test-beam facility, AI for autonomous vehicles, translating big science into applications, sterile neutrinos, inexplicable photons, meeting reports, reviews, careers and more in the latest issue.