Pioneering Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti, who led one of two experiments that led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, ...

Cern has switched off the Large Hadron Collider for a four-year shutdown and overhaul. The work will prepare the machine for ...

For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter has mass. Nicknamed the "God particle", the Higgs boson became one of the ...

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 ...

François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of the so-called 'God particle'—the Higgs boson—has passe ...

The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favored moving forward with plans for a giant particle collider far more powerful than the collider that discovered the famous ...

The Higgs Boson is a hypothetical particle that is the quantum of the Higgs field, which is claimed to be the missing link in the Standard Model of the Universe. The field and the particle provide a ...

Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider have discovered a new particle - Copyright AFP/File VALENTIN FLAURAUD Physicists using the Large Hadron Collider have ...

Retrospective: a week of turning points that shaped the world (The Independent) From Britain’s goodbyes to Hong Kong to ...