China's ambitious new particle accelerator was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project was ...

Have you ever wondered what mysteries lie hidden in the vast expanse of space? While stars, galaxies, and planets dominate ...

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Scientists at CERN’s ATLAS experiment have uncovered compelling evidence of Higgs bosons decaying into muons, an incredibly rare event that could deepen our understanding of how particles acquire mass ...

The battle over the heft of a hard-to-detect particle is heating up. What’s at stake? Only the leading theory describing all known matter in the universe. A recalculation of the mass of an elementary ...

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what you're not seeing? The skies may be full of invisible "boson stars ...

Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

Something is seriously wrong with gravity, and nobody's quite sure why. The problem is that gravity is too weak. Out of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe—gravity, electromagnetism, ...

This month marks the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, a true “Holy Grail” of science that had eluded detection for almost 50 years. But what exactly is this particle, and why is ...

(CBS News) The science world is abuzz about an announcement from the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, concerning the Higgs boson - informally called the "god particle." ...

If you’ve heard the news about the Nobel Prize in physics, you might be asking yourself: What is a Higgs boson anyway? If you know one thing about the Higgs boson, it’s probably that it’s called the ...

Physicists almost sure they've detected Higgs boson, key to matter and energy. July 2, 2012 — -- After decades of careful experiment, physicists say they have found the "strongest indication to ...