The Higgs-like boson that was unveiled this week at Europe's CERN physics lab is one of the heaviest subatomic particles ever detected, but it also has a lighter side. Like light beer, for example.

Overcoming discrimination in a mostly male preserve, she did groundbreaking work that showed experimentalist physicists where and how to look for new particles. By Katrina Miller Physicists working at ...

They call it the “God particle.” It holds the key to humanity’s presence on Earth — indeed, to the existence of all the matter in the universe. Feuding nations have set aside their differences and ...

HOPES of using the Higgs boson and the elegant theory of supersymmetry as shortcuts to discovering the mysteries of the universe are evaporating fast. That’s the verdict of a major update from the ...

This proton-proton collision event, from the CMS experiment at CERN, shows characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson. Photo by CERN. It’s science writing at its best, plus it has ...

LONDRESLONDRES — Fallece a los 94 años el físico Peter Higgs, quien propuso la existencia de la partícula bosón de Higgs. Supervisors OK reserves policy overhaul, in move to free up hundreds of ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- New measurements announced today by scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory indicate that the elusive ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two physicists who predicted the existence of the elusive Higgs boson particle, which is thought to explain why other particles have mass, the committee ...

If it looks like a Higgs, acts like a Higgs, and decays like a Higgs, it's probably a Higgs. That's essentially the news from the physicists at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) who found a ...

The Higgs-like boson that was unveiled this week at Europe's CERN physics lab is one of the heaviest subatomic particles ever detected, but it also has a lighter side. Like light beer, for example.

For his next trick, your cosmic correspondent for the past quarter-century will (try to) retire. By Dennis Overbye A musical about particle physics is under development, with David Henry Hwang, the ...

Higgs, an 84-year-old British professor at the University of Edinburgh, predicted the existence of the particle that would bear his name in 1964, when he laid the framework for the Higgs mechanism.