In 2012, scientists confirmed the discovery of the elusive "God Particle" — also known as the Higgs boson. But what exactly is it, why does it matter, and how does it change our understanding of the ...

This discovery was something of an accident, as it emerged out of the search for new types of Higgs bosons. A boson is a subatomic particle with an angular momentum (spin) that has integer values.

Penn physicists were among more than 13,000 researchers from 70 countries who shared the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental ...

The detection of longitudinally polarized W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards ...

The Higgs, Dark Matter, and how the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics puts UP at the forefront of describing reality itself In 2012, a team at the European Organization for Nuclear ...

A new measurement finds the universe's teensiest particles weigh no more than one-millionth the mass of an electron.

"We don't know the frequency, so we need to keep tuning and trying different ones, like searching for a good radio station ...

IFLScience traveled to CERN to get an exclusive insight into the crucial theory of particle physics, its limitations, and ...

The importance of the Higgs boson to our fundamental understanding of the Universe is reflected in the large number of ESPP submissions calling for deeper study of this unique particle and associated ...

In 2012, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN jointly announced the discovery of the ...