Faster, more efficient, and more versatile—these are the expectations for the technology that will produce our energy and handle information in the future. But how can these expectations be met? A ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do with the Big Bang ...

Every time two beams of particles collide inside an accelerator, the universe lets us in on a little secret. Sometimes it's a particle no one has ever seen. Other times, it's a fleeting glimpse of ...

The geometry of space, where physical laws unfold, may also hold answers to some of the deepest questions in fundamental physics. The very structure of spacetime might underlie every interaction in ...

The Simpsons predicted the Higgs boson years before its discovery, blending fundamental physics constants with creative writing from mathematically trained show staff. New York tourist stabbed while ...

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had successfully detected the Higgs boson, the manifestation of the mechanism that ...

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — On ...

Nobel Committee Secretary General Thomas Perlmann addresses journalists in front of a screen displaying the portraits of (L-R) Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi during a press ...

Often referred to as the "God Particle," a nickname popularized by physicist Leon Lederman in his 1993 book The God Particle, the term was never meant to imply any religious significance. In fact, ...

Here we go again: The government is on the verge of a shutdown, and Democratic votes are needed to keep it open. But congressional Democrats might be happy to let a shutdown happen rather than help ...

Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their size, the very thing that makes them so alien. We’re typically ...