  While heavy ion collisions at the SPS have produced excited strongly
interacting matter near the conditions for quark deconfinement, the RHIC may be
the first machine capable of creating quark-antiquark plasmas sufficiently
long-lived to allow deep penetration into the new phase. A comprehensive
experimental program addressing this exciting physics has been put into place.
Presented here are preliminary results from Au+Au at $\sqrt{S}$ = 130 GeV
obtained during the first RHIC run and some CERN SPS results from Pb+Pb at
$\sqrt{S}$ = 17 GeV (particularly relevant to QGP search).
