As 2012 draws to a close, physicists are celebrating — and being celebrated for — the end of a four-decade scientific quest to find a subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson. The discovery, made ...

Scientists have spotted the first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay, expanding our understanding of the strange quantum universe. In 2012, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a breakthrough ...

Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, physicists have made considerable progress in exploring its properties. Does ...

There’s a lot more to the story of the Higgs boson than just one man named Higgs. Despite the appeal of the “lone genius” narrative, it’s rare that a discovery can be attributed solely to the work of ...

Emily Conover spent one of the most consequential moments in recent physics history in a cavern near a nuclear power plant in France. At the time, Conover was a Ph.D. student in particle physics ...

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 ...

On July 4, two experiments analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) at the border of Switzerland and France announced that they had discovered a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Minute Physics creator Henry Reich doesn't shrink from tackling the big bang and other big deals in science, so it makes sense that he's now making sense of the Higgs boson. His timing is excellent, ...

If you've paid any attention to physics or physical science research in the past few years, you've heard about the Large Hadron Collider(Opens in a new window) (LHC), the world's largest and ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - "We don't call it the 'God particle', it's just the media that do that," a senior U.S. scientist politely told an interviewer on a major European radio station on Tuesday. "Well, I ...

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 ...