Scientists at CERN in Switzerland have announced the discovery of a new elementary particle, the first new particle since the Z boson was discovered way back in 1983. Curiously, CERN isn't calling ...

China’s ambitious plan to build the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), a multibillion-dollar project aimed at ...

CERN scientists announced on Wednesday that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the long-sought after Higgs boson, the final missing ingredient in the standard model of particle Physics.

Multibillion-dollar research proposal to study Higgs bosons did not make the shortlist for the nation’s next five-year plan, ...

GENEVA - Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of "the missing cornerstone of physics" Wednesday, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic ...

We’ve heard this clamoring before, but after years of experimenting and hypothesizing, the UK Telegraph says that CERN—keepers of the Large Hadron Collider—will hold a press conference on July 4 to ...

— -- The physics world was abuzz Monday with early reports that the elusive "God particle" had been detected at Europe's premier physics lab. Discovering the particle, formally called the Higgs ...

(AP) The world should know with certainty by the middle of this year whether a subatomic particle discovered by scientists is a long-sought Higgs boson, the head of the world’s largest atom smasher ...

The next head of Europe’s CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favoured moving forward with plans for a giant particle collider. Mark Thomson will take ...

Outside CERN, the announcement seemed to ricochet around the world with some of the speed and energy of the particle itself. Marc Sher, a professor of physics at William & Mary College, said most ...