The Higgs boson is often referred to as the “God particle” due to its crucial role in our understanding of the mass of ...

The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favored moving forward with plans for a giant ...

Early in his tenure as premier, Blaine Higgs pointed to his work at Irving Oil — and the immutable rhythms of the tides in the Bay of Fundy — to explain how he would govern. Ships heavy with ...

The 2013 prize for the discovery of Higgs boson (hyped as the God particle) recognised the insight into how particles acquire mass. Consider another example. In 1964, a Nobel Prize was given for ...

Make no mistake, New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs lost big on Monday night. The province’s voters delivered a forceful rebuke of Higgs’ Progressive Conservatives similar to the 1995 election ...

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs lost his own seat in the election Monday and said it's unlikely he will remain as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. Elections N.B. results show the ...

But if elections are won, they are also lost, and Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs – who was defeated in his own riding, the first incumbent premier to do so since 1987 – certainly ...

In the nucleus, neutrons can be stable. Free neutrons, however, decay after a short while. Credit: Oliver Diekmann, TU Wien How long do neutrons live? Different measurement results contradict each ...

With PDF functions for the atomic nucleus, it is possible to determine experimentally measurable parameters, such as the probability of a specific particle being created in an electron or proton ...

The workload, fast pace and pressures of our professional lives can require performance levels similar to those of a competitive athlete. While challenges can be stimulating and motivating, as time ...

If researchers can figure those out, the new information may help build a more complete standard model of particle physics, as well as expand our knowledge of the inner workings of planets ...

Two years ago, CERN and Solvay, a Belgian science company, launched the CERN-Solvay Education Programme, a three-year partnership to inspire high-school students from around the world to get involved ...