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 ...

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 ...

Outside experts point to the promise of learning more about the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that has been controversially dubbed “the God particle,” which helped explain how matter ...

Rolex teams up with the CERN and Society Foundation to inspire interest in science and also support breakthroughs tackling ...

Have you ever wondered about the problem of evil? The question of why, if God is all-good and all-powerful, then bad things happen in the world? Why disease? Why famine? Why golf? If so ...

The jury's reasoning reads like a compendium of modern particle physics. The award was conferred for “detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass ...

However, the findings indicate a high likelihood that the particle discovered is the toponium. It all began with the search for new types of the Higgs boson particle, which was first detected in ...

Breakthrough Prize recently honored pioneering researchers alongside Hollywood icons in a star-studded ceremony in Santa ...

The Higgs boson is the simplest yet most perplexing particle discovered so far, with properties that have far-reaching implications for our existence. It is related to the mechanism that enabled ...

The prize specifically highlighted the ATLAS Collaboration’s significant contributions to particle physics, including detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties, studies of rare processes and ...