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Higgs boson

July 2024

  • Sir Paul Nurse shakes hands with Rosemary Fowler

    Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery

    Rosemary Fowler discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research in 1948 but gave up PhD to have a family

April 2024

  • Peter Higgs at the Science Museum in London, 2013.

    Peter Higgs obituary

  • Prof Peter Higgs in his old office at Edinburgh University with a description of the Higgs model, written by him on the blackboard.

    Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

February 2024

  • An artist’s impression of Cern’s proposed Future Circular Collider.

    Cern aims to build €20bn collider to unlock secrets of universe

    Research lab submits plans for next-generation model at least three times size of Large Hadron Collider

October 2023

  • Martin Rees

    Some Nobel winners are great intellects, others are lucky. There’s more to science than these prizes

    Martin Rees
    The flaws of the awards, seen by the public as the only game in town, are hindering the pursuit of innovation, says astronomer royal Martin Rees

November 2022

  • Donald Perkins

    Donald Perkins obituary

    Physicist who played a key role from the birth of particle physics in the 1940s to the discovery of the Higgs boson

July 2022

  • The Large Hadron Collider at Cern near Geneva in Switzerland

    Cern gears up for more discoveries 10 years after ‘God particle’ find

    With the Higgs boson already in the bag, the Large Hadron Collider begins another period of data collection

April 2022

  • suzie sheehy at the rutherford appleton laboratory, chilton, oxon

    Dr Suzie Sheehy: ‘The eureka moment may come once in your career, or never’

    The Australian physicist on the small victories that make lab work fulfilling, how she found forgotten female scientists to include in her first book, and why research is an investment

March 2021

  • Catherine Cho

    In brief: Unsettled Ground; Genesis; Inferno – reviews

    Twins unravel their family history when their mother dies; myths, science and the origins of the universe; and a harrowing account of postpartum psychosis

January 2021

  • Jack Steinberger in front of blackboard

    Jack Steinberger obituary

    Nobel prizewinning scientist whose work played a significant role in the development of modern particle physics theory

January 2019

  • Michael Atiyah at his home in Edinburgh in 2004.

    Sir Michael Atiyah obituary

    One of the greatest British mathematicians since Isaac Newton

October 2018

  • Xenon-Xenon collision in the CMS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

    Has new ghost particle manifested at Large Hadron Collider?

    ‘Something terribly new’ goes bump in data yet to be confirmed by Atlas detector

September 2018

  • Marie Curie, the only woman to have won two Nobel prizes, in her Paris laboratory in 1925.

    Why Nobel prizes fail 21st-century science

    It is the ultimate accolade, but critics claim the award is now out of step with modern collaborative research methods

August 2018

  • Higgs to 2e2μ candidate event recorded by ATLAS at the CERN LHC in 2017 (run=328263, event=953423990).

    Life and Physics
    Life, Physics and Everything

    When the Guardian’s science blog network closes, Life & Physics will have been here for eight years. Physics has come a long way in that time, but there is (as always) more to be done...

July 2018

  • The visitor centre at the ALICE experiment, CERN

    Life and Physics
    Two quarks for Muster Higgs

    Since the big discovery of 2012, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has been accumulating data and making steady progress. Two recent results establish the origins of the mass of the two heaviest quarks

June 2018

  • The Large Hadron Collider in its tunnel at Cern, near Geneva, Switzerland

    £720m Large Hadron Collider upgrade 'could upend particle physics'

    Collider will be far more sensitive to anomalies that could lead to entirely new theories of the universe

March 2018

  • Richard Taylor in 1995

    Richard Taylor obituary

    Scientist who shared the 1990 Nobel prize in physics for establishing that protons and neutrons are made up of quarks

February 2018

  • The Sun

    Life and Physics
    How much mass does the W boson have?

    And why it matters

July 2017

  • ATLAS data on the decay of the HIggs boson to bottom quarks

    Life and Physics
    Getting to the bottom of the Higgs boson

    As the Large Hadron Collider at CERN continues probing the high-energy frontier of physics, a new feature of its greatest discovery so far has come into view

March 2017

  • clockwork

    Life and Physics
    From gravity to the Higgs we're still waiting for new physics

    Annual physics jamboree Rencontres de Moriond has a history of revealing exciting results from colliders, and this year new theories and evidence abound
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