If you're talking to a physicist about the Higgs boson, whatever you do, do not call it by its media-hyped nickname the "God Particle." You're almost guaranteed to illicit a wince, a grimace ...

The University of Edinburgh reported on Tuesday that Nobel winner Peter Higgs, the man who gave rise to the “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at ...

Some particle physicists thought that it was unfair to the others who had contributed to the theory. In 1993, another Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman wrote a popular science book called The God ...

Ever since it was first hypothesized in the 1960s, the Higgs boson, also known as the “god particle,” has been one of the most elusive objects in particle physics. But although experiments at ...