On Tuesday morning, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs, for monumental theories that helped to solidify and confirm the Standard Model of particle physics.

Scottish physicist Peter Higgs says he’s sorry the Higgs boson was ever called the “God Particle.” He’s an atheist. But the term helps the rest of us understand just how important the Higgs boson is ...

Two scientists have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for independent work in developing new theories about mass and sub atomic particles. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced ...

The awarded theory is a central part of the Standard Model of particle physics that describes how the world is constructed. According to the Standard Model, every­thing, from flowers and people to ...

When the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced in Stockholm in October 2013, the world was watching. Among the names read out was Prof Peter Higgs, the British theorist who, nearly half a century ...