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The boson that physics almost rejected

07/02/24

Claire Malone

Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs died earlier this year. Twelve years ago this week, physicists discovered the particle that bears his name.

03/28/19

Video games and physics have more in common than you might think.

03/26/19

Respondents to Symmetry’s survey about what it’s like to earn a PhD in particle physics or astrophysics offer their views of the experience.

03/19/19

A Swedish university tapped the founding director of CERN’s artist-in-residence program to curate a new art exhibit inspired by physics.

03/14/19

Scientists around the world are testing ways to further boost the power of particle accelerators while drastically shrinking their size.

03/12/19

Science writer Sibusiso Biyela aims to bring science back to South Africa’s Zulu communities.

03/05/19

The story of the latest experiment approved for installation at the Large Hadron Collider starts with a theorist and a question about dark matter.

02/26/19

Some of this science sounds awfully familiar.

02/22/19

One sprinkle of sand at a time, two artists recreated the moment a particle passed through a detector 30 years earlier.