Listen to the latest from the world of science, with Benjamin Thompson and Nick Petrić Howe. Your browser does not support the audio element. Ten years ago this week ...

Ten years after the discovery of the Higgs boson, the ATLAS experiment at CERN probes its kinematic properties with a significantly larger dataset from 2015–2018 and provides further insights on its ...

Frank Close’s “Elusive” looks at the life and work of the man who changed our ideas about the basis of matter. By Deborah Blum When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

This work provides evidence for something scientists predicted long ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have spotted ...

In the periodic table, no element is more important than another one. But in the Standard Model—a theory that explains the smallest constituents of the universe and the forces that govern them, minus ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We all know and love the Higgs boson — which to physicists' chagrin has been mistakenly tagged in ...

Machine learning has returned with a vengeance. I still remember the dark days of the late '80s and '90s, when it was pretty clear that the current generation of machine-learning algorithms didn't ...

Researchers have discovered a short-lived form of the famous Higgs boson -- subject of a groundbreaking search at the Large Hadron Collider -- within an iron-based superconductor. This Higgs mode can ...