To cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it “consistent” with the long-sought Higgs boson _ ...

The long and complicated journey to detect the Higgs boson, which started with one small step about 25 years ago, might finally have reached its goal. This was reported by LHC particle accelerator ...

After more than 30 years of planning, building and testing, the Large Hadron Collider is providing answers that could fundamentally change the way in which we understand the universe. CERN, the ...

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 ...

Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks like the Higgs boson, a potential key to an understanding of why ...

A scientist who achieved worldwide fame with the discovery of the so-called ‘God particle’ left a £3.2 million fortune. Professor Peter Higgs was a researcher at the University of Edinburgh when he ...

GENEVA - Physicists say they have all but proven that the "God particle" exists. They have a footprint and a shadow, and the only thing left is to see for themselves the elusive subatomic particle ...

On July 4, 2012, at the CERN laboratory in Geneva – home to the massive particle accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC – two groups of physicists announced the discovery of a new ...

FARGO - For years, physicists were working to build a "very complicated puzzle" but couldn't quite find the one missing piece in the box, North Dakota State University assistant professor of physics ...