Higgs-boson pairs could help scientists understand the stability of our universe. The trick is finding them. In 2012, scientists on the CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider ...

This newly-discovered particle could account for dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers have discovered a new ...

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider weren’t the only ones to discover a Higgs-like particle. When we asked symmetry breaking readers to send us their own evidence of a Higgs boson, they sent a ...

But despite years of searching, using the most complex machines ever constructed on the planet, the Higgs remained as elusive as a World Series ring for a Chicago Cub. Until now. Physicists at the ...

There are probably very few people on this globe who at some point in time haven’t heard the term ‘Higgs Boson’ zip past, along with the term ‘God Particle’. As during the 2010s the scientists at CERN ...

The future of supersymmetry is in serious doubt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Supersymmetry is the idea that the fundamental ...

This is the fourth article in a series on new experiments at CERN. The discovery of the Higgs boson on July 4th, 2012, at CERN was one of the great achievements in the history of particle physics, the ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Large Hadron Collider at CERN isn’t a single-purpose ...

When CERN’s Large Hadron Collider failed to uncover evidence of new “superpartner” particles during its first run, some claimed that the theory that predicts them – known as supersymmetry, or SUSY – ...

From my archive, on Peter Higgs and his boson. I interviewed Higgs, who has just won the Nobel Prize for his prediction of the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, only briefly. It was during ...

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 ...

Though galaxies look larger than atoms and elephants appear to outweigh ants, some physicists have begun to suspect that size differences are illusory. Perhaps the fundamental description of the ...