One of the biggest open questions in particle physics today is how the Higgs boson interacts with itself. This "self-coupling ...

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble ...

Yesterday, my friend and collaborator Ainissa Ramirez wrote a very popular guest post, entitled The Higgs Boson: Why You Should Care, and Sadly, Why You Don’t. Here’s her follow-up, explaining in very ...

My friend and collaborator Ainissa Ramirez, a Yale University materials scientist and TED Talker, likes to call herself a science evangelist, and her passion and expertise at science education is ...

Physicists have re-measured the mass of the W boson, and are happy to report it’s an almost perfect fit with theoretical ...

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 slotted in the final missing piece of the Standard Model puzzle. Yet, it left lingering questions. What lies beyond this framework? Where are the new phenomena ...

Measurement of W boson particle mass confirms Standard Model of physics and reignites the search for other particles.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if nothing ...

More than two years after physicists discovered the Higgs boson, there’s still a lot they don’t know about the elusive particle. Now, they want your help to make the next discovery about this particle ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The end of the universe could, theoretically, have already begun. The ...

A new type of machine could rival quantum computers in exceeding the power of classical computers, researchers say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

If you’ve heard the news about the Nobel Prize in physics, you might be asking yourself: What is a Higgs boson anyway? If you know one thing about the Higgs boson, it’s probably that it’s called the ...