Francois Englert, the Belgian physicist widely tipped to share a Nobel prize this year with Britain's Peter Higgs, said on Tuesday many cosmic mysteries remain despite the discovery of the boson that gave shape to the universe.
And he predicted...
Why did the journal Science name the Higgs boson – an elementary particle – last year's most important discovery? And why did it need something as enormous as the Large Hadron Collider, about 27 kilometers in diameter, to find it?
A British physicist and his Belgian colleague who all but identified the mysterious "God particle" that holds the universe together won a prestigious Spanish science prize on Wednesday.
CERN and TED-Ed have collaborated on a great animation that explains the basics of the Higgs boson. Dave Barney and Steven Goldfarb's lesson was animation by Jeanette Nørgaard for TED-Ed.
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CERN may be best known for its hunt for the Higgs Boson, but a team at the organization are also tracking down internet history, working to restore the first ever website to its original URL and server. The project, which will see the European...
BBC: Speculation surrounding this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has rekindled the debate concerning the naming of the Higgs boson. Because key contributions were made by at least six people—Robert Brout (who died in 2011), François Englert,...
Are you having a hard time dealing with the Large Hadron Collider's two-year maintenance shutdown? Do you miss waking up every morning to the potential of another big particle discovery in the news? Then strap this awesomely animated Higgs Boson...
Exploding stars, gravitational waves, new physics, and the search for the Higgs: These are some of the topics to be presented at a series of live webcast news briefings from the 2013 American Physical Society (APS) April Meeting, held April 13 - 16...
Professor Peter Higgs has a bone to pick with the media and anyone else who continues to refer to the sub-atomic particle Higgs boson as “the God particle.” The atheist scientist, one of the individuals to have confirmed its alleged...
Giant magnet in space shows 'existence of new physical phenomena' The LHC may have found the Higgs Boson, but overarching theories of everything have another hole: the observable universe weighs rather less than it ought if all those equations –...
We live in a world that has been largely demystified. We've done a pretty good job of mapping all of the uncharted lands. We have located the Higgs Boson. We have mastered fire and sequenced the human genome. And while there are many things in...
Finding the Higgs Boson particle is a revolutionary scientific discovery, sure, but CERN isn't the only scientific body rewriting our understanding of elementary physics. An international team of researchers have just announced that the massive...
Salon's poet army takes on DOMA and the Higgs BosonIt's now known there's a boson named Higgs,That creates both electrons and pigs.So it really does matter,How particles scatter.Some by zags, yet still others by zigs.Marilyn HewittMedia, Pa. A...
Physicists confirmed last week that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the -particle physics laboratory in Geneva, had indeed found a Higgs boson last July, marking a culmination of one of the longest and most expensive searches in science....
This week’s videos tackle the war in Iraq, gays in the church, a massive agro-chemical empire and one elusive microscopic particle.The list has been compiled by the editors of The I Files, a one-stop online news source. We scour YouTube and other...
Scientists in Switzerland announced earlier this month [March 14] that they are confident their experiments with the world's most powerful atom smasher have finally turned up the long-sought Higgs boson, also known as the “God Particle.”...
Planck's map of the cosmic microwave background, courtesy of ESA and the Planck Collaboration
First particle physicists discovered “a boring old Standard Model Higgs boson,” as my colleague Michael Moyer put it, meaning that the particle...
The new particle discovered at experiments at the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) last summer is looking more like a Higgs boson than ever before. The CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) scientists, including a number of BU...
