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Physicists Say They Have Found a Higgs Boson
(GENEVA) — Physicists say they are now confident they have discovered a long-sought subatomic particle known as a Higgs boson. The European Organization for...
The Higgs Boson Sings!
On the 4th of July at a packed press conference in Geneva, scientists at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, announced that they had found the...
TIME Talks to the Physicists Who Found the Higgs
It's not often that the world stops, cheers and generally goes nuts over a new discovery in particle physics. But that's what happened on July 4, when physicists...
Higgs Boson: A Ghost in the Machine
Get physicists and cosmologists talking about their work and they will tell you that there are elegant theories and messy ones. Almost all of them believe the...
The Higgs Boson: Have Scientists Found the Mystery Particle?
Not all that long ago, the Tevatron particle accelerator, about 30 miles west of Chicago, was the biggest, baddest atom smasher on the planet. It slammed protons...
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The Large Hadron Particle Collider
After more than 25 years of preparation, the huge particle accelerator outside Geneva went on line in 2008, as scientists attempted to re-create the conditions...
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Quantum Mechanical Words and Mathematical Organisms
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How the Higgs Boson Might Spell Doom for the Universe
found a Higgs boson last July, marking a culmination of one of the longest and most expensive searches in science. The finding also...
How the Higgs Boson Might Spell Doom for the Universe
found a Higgs boson last July, marking a culmination of one of the longest and most expensive searches in science. The finding also...
CERN Physicists See Higgs Boson in New Particle
Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, say they need more data to understand how the particle works and what it means for the universe. ...
