For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...

An elementary atomic particle observed to be real at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland in 2012. With 99.9% certainty, the Higgs boson, pronounced "bow-son," is said to be what gives other ...

The Higgs boson is the only fundamental particle known to be scalar, meaning it has no quantum spin. This fact answers questions about our universe, but it also raises new ones. When it was first ...

Ten years ago scientists announced one of the most momentous discoveries in physics: the Higgs boson. The particle, predicted 48 years earlier, was the missing piece in the Standard Model of particle ...

Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass. For particle physicists, this was ...

Physicists announced today (March 14) that a particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is a Higgs boson, a long-sought particle thought to explain how other particles get their ...

Ten years ago, on 4 July 2012, scientists and journalists gathered at CERN, and remotely around the world, for the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle, the Higgs boson. The ...

Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI science center. Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman, RealSpace and COSI Science Now. He contributed this ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Six years after discovering the Higgs boson, physicists have observed how the particle decays — a ...

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 ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon. Studies of the properties of the Higgs boson featured ...

The Higgs boson was discovered in the detectors of the Large Hadron Collider a dozen or so years ago. It has proved to be a particle so difficult to produce and observe that, despite the passage of ...