Physicist Professor Peter Higgs theorised about, and won the Nobel Prize for, the Higgs boson. But what is the elusive subatomic particle – which has also been called the “God particle ...

Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94. The University of Edinburgh confirmed the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's April 8 ...

a magnetic relative of the mass-defining Higgs Boson particle, the team reports in the online edition of the journal Nature. The detection a decade ago of the long-sought Higgs Boson became central to ...

Physicist J.J. Thomson discovered the electron in 1897, and scientists at the Large Hadron Collider found the final piece of the puzzle, the Higgs boson, in 2012. Use this interactive graphic to ...

The underlying theoretical construct in particle physics is called the Standard Model and it contains 6 quarks, 6 leptons, 4 gauge bosons, and one scalar boson (the Higgs boson), which interact ...

On July 4, 2012, scientists at the giant atom smashing facility at CERN announced the discovery of a subatomic particle that seems like a tantalizingly close match to the elusive Higgs Boson ...

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