The world's largest scientific machine—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN—has shut down after completing a landmark ...

It’s difficult to overstate just how much the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has helped advance our understanding of the ...

Does the Higgs boson follow all of the rules set by the Standard Model? Since discovering the particle in 2012, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations have been hard at work studying the behaviour of the ...

CMS has improved the constraints on the Higgs width, a fundamental property of this unique new particle, by more than two orders of magnitude. Nearly two years after its discovery, there is much to ...

For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The excitement from Europe earlier this month was palpable. Experiments ...

When Paul Glaysher was approaching the end of his master's degree in 2012, everyone was talking about the Higgs boson. After two years of smashing protons together, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider was ...

The tentative confirmation this week of the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle," was made possible in part by contributions from physicists at The Johns Hopkins University, who ...

Buried deep underground, this extraordinary machine has already transformed humanity's understanding of the universe.