Results from ALICE

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is optimized to study the properties of the hot, dense matter created in high energy nuclear collisions in order to improve our understanding of the properties of nuclear matter under extreme conditions. Recent results from ALICE will be presented. Measurements from pp and p--Pb collisions provide a baseline for measurements in heavy ion collisions. Measurements from Pb--Pb collisions indicate that the matter created in collisions at the LHC is hotter and larger than that at lower energies and behaves like a strongly interacting, nearly perfect liquid.