How a rejected paper by Kolkata physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, backed by Albert Einstein, laid the scientific foundation for ...

“A Higgs Boson walks into a church. The priest says, "We don't allow Higgs-Bosons in here." The Higgs Boson says "But without me how can you have mass?" If you were following the news last October, ...

LONDON — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the ...

The father of a theoretical subatomic particle dubbed "the God particle" says he's almost sure it will be confirmed in the next year in a race between powerful research equipment in the United States ...

"We don't call it the 'God particle', it's just the media that do that," a senior U.S. scientist politely told an interviewer on a major European radio station on Tuesday. "Well, I am the from the ...

In 1991 a single atomic nucleus slammed into our atmosphere with the intensity of a macroscopic object. PBS Space Time is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ...

The Greek philosopher Plato is well known for his allegories and metaphors. Of particular interest is his Allegory of the Cave, which appeared in The Republic, written around 380BCE. In it, Plato ...

Physicists from all over the world are racing to prove the existence of a particle that's surmised to be at the heart of the matter. Literally. Dubbed the "God particle" by Nobel Prize-winning ...