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

Yesterday, my friend and collaborator Ainissa Ramirez wrote a very popular guest post, entitled The Higgs Boson: Why You Should Care, and Sadly, Why You Don’t. Here’s her follow-up, explaining in very ...

Experimental physicists around the world are celebrating the discovery of the Higgs boson, which was officially announced yesterday. While many of us are trying to figure out what the Higgs boson is, ...

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As you may have heard, there is now strong evidence that a particle called the Higgs boson, whose existence has long been predicted on theoretical grounds, actually exists. Let me explain to you what ...

UPDATE: A leaked video published on CERN's website earlier today appears to have accidentally announced the discovery of the Higgs boson ahead of the rumored official announcement scheduled for early ...

The tentative confirmation this week of the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle," was made possible in part by contributions from physicists at The Johns Hopkins University, who ...

A century after Albert Einstein came up with his theories of relativity, a constellation of Global Positioning System satellites is orbiting Earth, making practical use of his ground-breaking ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The excitement from Europe earlier this month was palpable. Experiments had hinted at the discovery of a new fundamental ...

A diagram shows a proton-proton collision in the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS detector that produced a Higgs boson, which quickly decayed into two bottom quarks (bb, shown as blue cones). The ...

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 ...