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

Physicists have re-measured the mass of the W boson, and are happy to report it’s an almost perfect fit with theoretical ...

Measurement of W boson particle mass confirms Standard Model of physics and reignites the search for other particles.

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 ...

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

The new calculation, made at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, could help solve a niggling mystery about this ...

Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs died earlier this year. Twelve years ago this week, physicists discovered the particle that bears his name. When researchers at the Large Hadron Collider announced the ...

Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. Higgs’s work explaining how elementary particles get their mass won him the Nobel prize in 2013 and formed a key ingredient in the ...

LONDON — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the ...