The Higgs boson has been found! The Higgs boson has not been found! What the heck is the Higgs boson? Has it really been found? And why should we care? The Higgs boson is a key particle in the ...

Physicists have plans for the future of the Higgs boson. July 4, 2013— -- One year ago, several hours before cities across the United States started their annual fireworks displays, a different ...

Higgs-boson pairs could help scientists understand the stability of our universe. The trick is finding them. In 2012, scientists on the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ...

Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI science center. Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman, RealSpace and COSI Science Now. He contributed this ...

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday (Oct. 8) was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their work in developing the theory of the Higgs field, and Purdue ...

This month marks the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, a true “Holy Grail” of science that had eluded detection for almost 50 years. But what exactly is this particle, and why is ...

The prediction of the mass-bestowing Higgs field and the famous particle that goes with it has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. The Nobel committee selected Peter Higgs of the University of ...

DENVER — The discovery of the Higgs boson is real. But physicists are cagey about whether the new particle they've found will fit their predictions or not. So far, the data suggest that the Higgs, the ...

An extremely rare collision of massive subatomic particles could reveal the nuts and bolts of how the subatomic particles called Higgs bosons impart mass to other particles. The Higgs boson particle, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The apparent discovery of the Higgs boson particle last year has opened doors to new calculations ...