Why it matters: Since discovering the Higgs boson in 2012, scientists have thoroughly studied the strange particle looking for new clues about the true nature of matter and the universe. Now, CERN ...

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

After more than 30 years of planning, building and testing, the Large Hadron Collider is providing answers that could fundamentally change the way in which we understand the universe. CERN, the ...

After another record year, the world's largest particle accelerator was shut down at the beginning of the week. The next major upgrade will begin in mid-2026.

At the world’s most powerful colliders, physicists are finally catching sight of particles that almost never leave a trace, a ...

Deep beneath the serene landscape straddling the border of France and Switzerland, a marvel of modern science and engineering lies in wait. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, a massive particle ...

Know which discovery is called the God Particle. Understand the Higgs Boson, its discovery, importance for students, and its ...

The Standard Model is, essentially, an instructional booklet that describes how subatomic particles and forces interact. It’s made up of 16 particles total: 12 matter particles and four force-carrier ...

On April 8, 2024, British theoretical physicist Peter Ware Higgs passed away at the age of 94. It was almost 12 years ago, on July 4, 2012, in a fairly inauspicious lecture hall located in Geneva, ...

A “muon shot” aims to study the basic forces of the cosmos. But meager federal budgets could limit its ambitions. By Dennis Overbye and Katrina Miller Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is damaging ...

The CMS collaboration has recently presented new results in searches for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). Also known as "sterile neutrinos", HNLs are interesting hypothetical particles that ...

Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. Higgs’s work explaining how elementary particles get their mass won him the Nobel prize in 2013 and formed a key ingredient in the ...