Over the past century, we have peeled back the layers and uncovered more about the make-up of subatomic particles than ever ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Frank Close, a physics professor at Oxford University, about theoretical physicist Peter Higgs. Higgs died on Monday at the age of 94. Even if you're not into theoretical ...

Frank Close is a particle physicist, an emeritus professor and fellow emeritus at the University of Oxford and author of the upcoming Destroyer of Worlds: the deep history of the nuclear age, to be ...

The image of an atom, with electrons swarming around a central nucleus bulging with protons and neutrons, is as iconic in our perception of science as the DNA helix or the rings of ...