Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large ...

Early Tuesday morning, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics to two theoretical physicists — Peter Higgs and François Englert — who each independently ...

On a fall morning in 2009, a team of three young physicists huddled around a computer screen in a small office overlooking Broadway in New York. They were dressed for success—even the graduate student ...

Today, CERN announced that with near certainty, the boson discovered through particle collisions at the Large Hadron collider in Geneva, is indeed, the long sought after Higgs Boson particle — 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, ...

Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass. When you purchase through links ...

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 ...

For physicists, it was a moment like landing on the moon or the discovery of DNA. The focus was the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that exists for a mere fraction of a second. Long theorized but ...

With all the information surrounding the official discovery of the Higgs boson, it can be difficult to appreciate how this innovation can impact the average person. However, to understand why the ...

The excitement from Europe earlier this month was palpable. Experiments had hinted at the discovery of a new fundamental ingredient of nature—a particle called the Higgs boson. This wasn't just any ...

Something is seriously wrong with gravity, and nobody's quite sure why. The problem is that gravity is too weak. Out of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe—gravity, electromagnetism, ...

Zareen Tahsin Anjum, a postgraduate student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Dhaka, has earned ...