Higgs Boson

Researchers now believe dark matter forms 85% of all matter. This makes it heavier than stars, planets and humans combined.

Indian researchers celebrate 2025 breakthrough prize in fundamental physics for award-winning CERN experiments

The $3 million award will fund doctoral student grants. The chosen students from member institutions will receive practical training at CERN.

Two Higgs boson scientists tipped for Nobel prize

Recognition for a discovery that made headlines worldwide will come as no surprise, but deciding who deserves the glory is a tricky matter for the prize committee, which will announce its winner or winners on October 8.

Saha Institute to take up boson naming case with CERN chief

The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) is going to take up the case of sub-atomic particle boson, derived from an Indian scientist's name...

The God particle's Indian connection

The God particle, or Higgs Boson, interestingly has an Indian connection to it, which is that it was named after Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose.

CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson

At a seminar held at CERN today as a curtain raiser to the year's major particle physics conference, ICHEP ...

The Higgs particle: What it is and what it does

Scientists at the CERN research centre near Geneva, Switzerland, will on Wednesday unveil the latest results in their search for the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle believed to be key to the formation of stars, planets and eventually life after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

Scientists home in on missing link of physics

International scientists said on Tuesday they had found signs of the Higgs boson, an elementary sub-atomic particle believed to have played a vital role ...