Yesterday, my friend and collaborator Ainissa Ramirez wrote a very popular guest post, entitled The Higgs Boson: Why You Should Care, and Sadly, Why You Don’t. Here’s her follow-up, explaining in very ...

My friend and collaborator Ainissa Ramirez, a Yale University materials scientist and TED Talker, likes to call herself a science evangelist, and her passion and expertise at science education is ...

The world's largest particle smasher is due an upgrade, but is there anything left to discover?

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 slotted in the final missing piece of the Standard Model puzzle. Yet, it left lingering questions. What lies beyond this framework? Where are the new phenomena ...

More than two years after physicists discovered the Higgs boson, there’s still a lot they don’t know about the elusive particle. Now, they want your help to make the next discovery about this particle ...

A new type of machine could rival quantum computers in exceeding the power of classical computers, researchers say. Quantum computers rely on the bizarre properties of atoms and the other construction ...

The end of the universe could, theoretically, have already begun. The Higgs Boson is a subatomic particle that is crucial for a stable universe. If it became destabilized, it could create chaos in the ...

If you’ve heard the news about the Nobel Prize in physics, you might be asking yourself: What is a Higgs boson anyway? If you know one thing about the Higgs boson, it’s probably that it’s called the ...

When Scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider reported that they had likely found the Higgs boson, physics went mainstream. Overnight, the subatomic particle became a meme, a watercooler topic, and ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...