A engineer faces the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet, one of the experiments at CERN's Large Hadron ColliderFabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images The ATLAS particle detector at the ...

To cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it “consistent” with the long-sought Higgs boson _ ...

Our planet is under a constant bombardment of radiation—from space. Well, maybe it’s not as scary as that makes it seem. “Radiation” is a catchall term astronomers use for forms of light—including ...

In the vast ocean of existence, a silent dance pulses through every particle, every atom, every breath. This dance is ancient and eternal. In the heart of modern physics, scientists discovered the ...

A half-century scientific quest culminated early Wednesday as physicists announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle -- one theorized to be so fundamental that without it, nothing could exist.

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