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‘Impossible’ Higgs boson measurement within reach, thanks to a detour

08/05/25

Sarah Charley

A team of young scientists paused their new physics searches to develop an innovative machine-learning tool, which is now helping them narrow in on a rare and messy decay of the Higgs boson.

Illustration of "Cosmic Strings" purple strings in space

08/27/15

Looking for strings inside inflation

Theorists from the Institute for Advanced Study have proposed a way forward in the quest to test string theory.

Illustration of man's face reverberating from left to right while eating popcorn

08/25/15

All about supernovae

Exploding stars have an immense capacity to destroy—and create.

08/20/15

Q&A: Marcelle Soares-Santos

Scientist Marcelle Soares-Santos talks about Brazil, neutron stars and a love of discovery.

08/18/15

The age of the universe

How can we figure out when the universe began?

08/12/15

Q&A: Underground machinist

What’s it like being the machinist at the deepest machine shop in the world?

08/11/15

Testing the nature of neutrinos

The Majorana Demonstrator experiment is looking for a sign that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

Illustration of particle generation tree "Three Generations of Matter"

08/05/15

The mystery of particle generations

Why are there three almost identical copies of each particle of matter?

Split screen of H on small stage with a "The Supersymmetric Higgs" title above, H made of smaller H's "The Composite Higgs"

07/30/15

One Higgs is the loneliest number

Physicists discovered one type of Higgs boson in 2012. Now they’re looking for more.

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