Higgs Boson

Dr. Enrico Fermi was the leader of the group of scientists who succeeded in initiating the first man-made nuclear chain reaction.

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What Would Enrico Fermi Think Of Science Today?

12:15pm December 05, 2017

by David N. Schwartz

More than 60 years after the physicist won the Nobel Prize, author David N. Schwartz considers how Fermi would react to today's science of black holes, genetic engineering and climate change.

At CERN, Hunting For Invisible Worlds

1:23pm August 16, 2017

by Marcelo Gleiser

With so many dedicated to solving nature's riddles at CERN, it's hard not to think of it as a modern cathedral, a link between reason and mystery, a place of pilgrimage, says blogger Marcelo Gleiser.

The Large Hadron Collider uses superconducting magnets to smash sub-atomic particles together at enormous energies.

Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider

6:30pm April 29, 2016

by Geoff Brumfiel

The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is offline, following a run-in with a small mammal that munched on a power cord.

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This is what researchers at the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider expect a Higgs boson to look like. The Higgs boson is the subatomic particle that scientists say gives everything in the universe mass.

The Man Who Coined 'The God Particle' Explains: It Was A Joke!

6:02pm March 15, 2013

by Eyder Peralta

But it's likely that the Higgs Boson, a subatomic particle thought to give everything its mass, will be known by the moniker for a long time, Dick Teresi explained.

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