The Large Hadron Collider is one of the biggest experiments in history, but it’s also one of the hardest to interpret. Unlike ...

The Higgs boson, discovered in 2012 thanks to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is at the heart of the Standard Model of particle physics because it explains why particles have mass. So far, scientists ...

It was Dr. Higgs who pointed out that this cosmic molasses, normally invisible and, of course, odorless, would have its own quantum particle, and so the branding rights went to him.</p> <p>In 1967 ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

The Z boson is a massive, electrically neutral particle that mediates the weak nuclear force—one of nature's fundamental forces. With a mass of about 91 billion electronvolts (GeV), it ranks ...

Or it might be the first hint of a fifth force. If it is a fifth force, it is very weak. It is also mediated by a boson particle that could be lighter than a neutrino or much heavier than a top quark.