On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming that the United States was no ...

From Montezuma’s fall to the discovery of the Higgs boson, this week in history spans Aztec tragedy, American independence, ...

The Higgs boson, discovered in 2012 thanks to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is at the heart of the Standard Model of particle physics because it explains why particles have mass. So far, scientists ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 04. Check what happened ...

It was Dr. Higgs who pointed out that this cosmic molasses, normally invisible and, of course, odorless, would have its own quantum particle, and so the branding rights went to him.</p> <p>In 1967 ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted not ...

However, the problem with string theory is that it is so flexible that it can explain almost anything, making it nearly ...

From Norway to the United States, discover 20 groundbreaking tunnels that changed the world (and their staggering price tags).

In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known ...