Andrei Gritsan, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins, is a member of a large team of researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and France that, in 2012 ...

There is much speculation regarding how the Higgs Boson and Higgs field came into being, and many scientists wish to claim the discovery as their own. In truth, there were scientists that were working ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The discovery of the Higgs boson (or the ...

The existence of the Higgs boson completes the standard model of particle physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On April 8, ...

The discovery of the Higgs boson filled in a missing piece of the standard model of particle physics, which describes matter and its interactions. A decade later, physicists continue to probe the ...

Last year, after decades of waiting, a handful of theorists had their work confirmed with the announcement that scientists had discovered an elusive particle called the Higgs boson. Now, just over a ...

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 ...

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 ...

After all the excitement surrounding the discovery of the Higgs, a new book called Beyond the God Particle asks where we go next IN 2012 American Independence Day was a high-water mark for European ...

Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94. The University of Edinburgh confirmed the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's April 8 ...