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A Mysterious Particle May Have Just Revealed a New ‘Fundamental Principle’
The most precise measurement of a W boson presents a possible challenge to the Standard Model of particle physics.
Scientists May Have Detected a Huge Collision Between Blobs of Dark Matter
If confirmed, the collision between never-before-seen boson stars may solve the long search for the source of dark matter.
In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Observe Higgs Boson Decay into Bottom Quarks
After years of attempts, the particle’s most common decay pattern has finally been observed at the Large Hadron Collider.
Motherboard's Favorite Things of 2012
Mars touchdown, Bjork, gauge symmetry, Occupy reborn. 2012 really happened.
What Is the Higgs Boson?
We took to the streets of Williamsburg to figure out what the fuss is all about.
It Did Hurt: An Interview with Fermilab Physicist Rob Roser on Searching for Higgs in America
Physicist Rob Roser is head of the Scientific Computing Division and formerly a spokesman for the CDF experiment at Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator, in Batavia, Illinois, an hour outside of Chicago. The Tevatron was switched off last September, leaving...
Too Cloudy for Fireworks? Check Out These Higgs GIFs
It's not easy to visualize the maybe-discovered Higgs boson, especially since we can't see it. Instead we detect its presence by looking at the wreckage of collisions of protons, and finding the two other particles into which the Higgs is "thought to...
What the Mood Is Like at CERN Right Now
Don't pop your champagne "just yet":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/2/for-the-love-of-god-particle-the-god-particle-has-not-yet-been-discovered, but the Swiss lab is maybe about to be hosting the biggest "coming out party":http://www.guardian.co.uk...
A Very Simple Explanation of How to Catch a Higgs Boson, If It Actually Exists (Video)
In December, scientists at CERN moved "closer":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16158374 to nabbing the Higgs, the particle that is thought to explain what gives everything mass. Or to not finding it at all. In his latest video update...