For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble ...

Researchers have, for the first time, described the properties of one-dimensional anyons and outlined how these particles can be observed using existing experimental setups.

Yesterday, my friend and collaborator Ainissa Ramirez wrote a very popular guest post, entitled The Higgs Boson: Why You Should Care, and Sadly, Why You Don’t. Here’s her follow-up, explaining in very ...

My friend and collaborator Ainissa Ramirez, a Yale University materials scientist and TED Talker, likes to call herself a science evangelist, and her passion and expertise at science education is ...

A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental particles in the universe ...

When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists' understanding of the universe can tip into the ...

A new type of machine could rival quantum computers in exceeding the power of classical computers, researchers say. Quantum computers rely on the bizarre properties of atoms and the other construction ...

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider would like your help in studying the Higgs Boson. It's true that they found the Higgs boson—which is responsible for giving all particles their mass—nearly two ...

If you’ve heard the news about the Nobel Prize in physics, you might be asking yourself: What is a Higgs boson anyway? If you know one thing about the Higgs boson, it’s probably that it’s called the ...

The end of the universe could, theoretically, have already begun. The Higgs Boson is a subatomic particle that is crucial for a stable universe. If it became destabilized, it could create chaos in the ...

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 slotted in the final missing piece of the Standard Model puzzle. Yet, it left lingering questions. What lies beyond this framework? Where are the new phenomena ...

Gerald Guralnik, one of the physicists who developed the Higgs theory in the 1960s, died on April 26 at the age of 77. Guralnik was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. “Gerry ...