As part of our series Just You Wait, Newsworks Tonight host Dave Heller spoke to WHYY health and science reporter Carolyn Beeler about two developments in science predicted for 2012–one from the ...

The Higgs boson is perhaps better known by its sexier nickname: the “God particle.” But many scientists, including the physicist for whom it is named, dislike the term. In 1993 when American physicist ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Nobel prize-winning physicist ...

Some researchers are throwing cold water on the belief that the particle discovered in the Large Hadron Collider two years ago actually is the elusive Higgs boson. Teams of scientists said last year ...

Particle physics dives into the very depths of the universe – the particles that make up atoms. Over the past century, we have peeled back the layers and uncovered more about the make-up of subatomic ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Peter Higgs, the physicist who predicted the Higgs boson particle, has passed away at the age of 94 due to a blood disorder. His work proposing the particle — and showing how it helped give mass to ...