Scientists at CERN in Switzerland have announced the discovery of a new elementary particle, the first new particle since the Z boson was discovered way back in 1983. Curiously, CERN isn't calling ...

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But not anymore. After collecting data, scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have announced the discovery with 99.999 percent certainty that the Higgs Boson does exist.

Researchers can't say for certain that a particle they discovered is the so-called "God particle," but the information they have "strongly indicates" it is. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET ...

GENEVA - Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of "the missing cornerstone of physics" Wednesday, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic ...

Nobel laureate Peter Higgs gave his name to one of the great scientific discoveries of the last century, earning a place alongside Albert Einstein and Max Planck in physics textbooks. Through ...

The Cern laboratory may have let slip its biggest breakthrough in a generation after appearing to announce the discovery of a new particle in an online video. It was first theorised in the 1960s by ...