For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

The discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012 represented a major turning point for particle physics marking the completion of what is known as the standard model of particle physics. Yet, the standard ...

Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger than its Large Hadron Collider to continue searching for answers to some of the universe's tiniest yet most profound ...

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

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically ...

Head to Switzerland for a tour of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory, to discover the secrets of ...