This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

Ten years ago, scientists announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, which helps explain why elementary particles (the smallest building blocks of nature) have mass. When you purchase through links ...

Although I have no interest whatsoever in downplaying the anniversary of the 236th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I think it’s fair to assume that July 4, 2012, will go down in ...

Other patches in the multiverse would have, instead, met their ends. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Higgs boson, the ...

In 1964, Higgs came up with a theory about a particle that gives other particles their mass. The particle, which we now know as the Higgs boson, changed the way we view the universe. Scientists ...

On July 4, two experiments analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) at the border of Switzerland and France announced that they had discovered a ...

“I was actually shaking,” said Mitesh Patel, a particle physicist at Imperial College, London, as he describes the moment he saw the results. “I realised this was probably the most exciting thing I’ve ...

The Higgs boson, the mysterious particle that lends other particles their mass, could have kept our universe from collapsing. And its properties might be a clue that we live in a multiverse of ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) - It took nearly 50 years, but Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for figuring out how the universe's most basic building ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man in a suit stands in front of an image of the Large Hadron Collider, which has lots of mechanical parts centered around a ...