The mechanism predicts a particle - the Higgs boson - which was finally discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, in Switzerland. “This year's prize is about something small ...

Research is progressing on a new form of radiotherapy to treat cancer that has shown promising results, tackling difficult ...

Brian Cox has led tributes to 'visionary' Nobel Prize winning physicist Professor Peter Higgs who predicted the Higgs boson 'God particle' - after his death aged 94. Peter Higgs was awarded the ...

almost 50 years after Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle, which came to be known as the Higgs boson, or the “God particle.” Higgs' work helped scientists understand one of the ...

As part of one of the most ambitious quests in science a senior physicist at The University of Manchester has helped to narrow the search to find a ghost-like neutrino particle – its discovery ...

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An interdisciplinary team led by Boston College physicists has discovered a new particle—or previously undetectable quantum excitation—known as the axial Higgs mode, a magnetic relative of the ...

On Satyendra Nath Bose's death anniversary, we revisit how Einstein’s intervention saved his rejected paper, leading to ...

If you're talking to a physicist about the Higgs boson, whatever you do, do not call it by its media-hyped nickname the "God Particle." You're almost guaranteed to illicit a wince, a grimace ...

These two properties of axions mean that they are exceptionally good at collapsing down to incredibly high densities, pulled ...

Excessive dark matter mass may disrupt the Higgs boson Heavier dark matter challenges Standard Model physics Lighter ...

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