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 ...

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 ...

His work paved the way for the discovery of the Higgs boson, which explained how particles acquire mass, solving one of the ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

LONDON — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

IOWA CITY — Nearly four decades after famed astrophysicist James Van Allen in 1951 took charge of the University of Iowa physics department — and 30 years after discovering what became known as the ...

In 1991, an experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God particle, the cosmic ray’s energy shocked astrophysicists. Nothing in our galaxy had the power ...