Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. If ...

This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be ...

Researchers at CERN have used artificial intelligence (AI) to explore one of the Higgs boson’s most elusive behaviors, ...

The Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, plays a central role in the Standard Model of ...

Instead of using the Large Hadron Collider to smash atoms together, researchers briefly turned lead into gold by facilitating ...

In the vast ocean of existence, a silent dance pulses through every particle, every atom, every breath. This dance is ancient ...

Exotic nuclei near and beyond the proton drip line exhibit a range of unique decay processes, including β-delayed proton emission, α decay, and direct proton radioactivity. Spectroscopic studies ...

Collapsing sewage drains in Brussels’ landmark Palais de Justice, judicial clerks striking in Lisbon, years-long waits for hearings in London. After years of underfunding in justice systems ...

Krofcheck played a key role in the breakthrough discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 through his work on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector, a giant camera that records particle collisions. The ...

Maryann (Higgs) McCoy, 82, of Fredonia, NY, died Thursday April 24, 2025 at the Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Visitation hours and funeral service will be held Monday at the LARSON ...

This is where the Higgs Boson, a critical particle in modern particle physics theory, was discovered in 2012. Penn is part of what is called the ATLAS Experiment, which played a critical role in the ...