Higgs boson
What Is a "Boring" Higgs Boson?
As physics heads into the Higgs home stretch, it appears the God particle might not have many surprises.
The Higgs Boson Might Not Be as Weird as We Hoped
Wait, what? New Higgs boson results? Did you think it was over? Oh hell no. "A post today":http://profmattstrassler.com/2012/11/14/higgs-results-at-kyoto/ from physicist Matt Strassler discussing the newest Higgs findings puts it well, "Knowledge...
A Death on the Frontier
The unprecedented hunt for the the Higgs boson or "God particle" may have culminated at Europe's largest particle accelerator, but it was the product of an effort that began thousands of miles away at another atom smasher beneath the Illinois prairie.
The Higgs Boson Interpreted as Cuban Dance Music
Data and statistical analysis is a hard thing to explain to a public not accustomed to it and more used to pop culture imaginings of scientists just finding shit in sudden _eureka!_ moments. Based on a cross-section of interactions over the years...
Motherboard TV: A Death on the Frontier
The hunt for the Higgs boson, god particle or goddamn particle, the one that gives things mass, came closer to an end on July 4. Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the world's largest particle accelerator, found evidence of the...
For Chrissakes, Stop Calling It 'God Particle'
Detecting and cross-checking (and cross-checking again) the existence of the Higgs boson is a big undertaking and an important one, so its attention from the press is understandable - laudable, even. But the problem with covering the Higgs boson search...
The Large Hadron Collider In All Its Sublime Glory [Gallery]
This giant, fabled construction has its own strange beauty.
The Higgs Boson Mural At CERN By Josef Kristofoletti
A stop-motion video documenting the creation of this artwork at CERN.
The Spiritual World Reacts to the Higgs Boson Discovery
We asked God's gatekeepers if Cern's discovery means God doesn't exist.
Hipster Pop Quiz: What is the Higgs Boson?
Of course _you_ know what the Higgs boson is -- it's the theorized particle that composes the energy field that endows every other particle with mass. It's the particle that makes the universe possible, let's nature construct things, like humans, or...
Why America's Higgs Party Won't Be a Blowout: Fermilab’s Rob Roser on the View from the Tevatron
Tomorrow, when the world hears a giant announcement about the Higgs boson from scientists at Europe’s CERN laboratory, they might not notice its American accomplice. On Monday, the Fermi National Laboratory, or Fermilab, which is situated in the middle...
Motherboard TV: Inside the Large Hadron Collider
Tomorrow, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is set to announce some of the most highly-anticipated — and poorly-embargoed - findings in recent memory: evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson. Now, we won’t know for sure until...