The story goes that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman referred to the Higgs as the "Goddamn Particle." The nickname was meant to poke fun at how difficult it was to detect the particle.

The nickname “God particle” comes from the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman's book in 1993 “The Goddamn Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?” ...

The nickname "God particle" comes from the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman's book in 1993 "The Goddamn Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?" The name was ...

Commissioned by the ATLAS Experiment at CERN, artist Josef Kristofoletti creates a three-story mural of that goddamn particle you’ve been hearing so much about.

A change in one particle instantly influences the other, regardless of the distance between them. In 1964, physicist John Bell posited that such changes can be induced and occur instantaneously ...

The Standard Model is a kind of periodic table of the elements for particle physics. But instead of listing the chemical elements, it lists the fundamental particles that make up the atoms that make ...

“And you guys jump in at the last minute, and I’m so goddamn sick of it. Anything that deals with Alaska, you feel it's open ...

Helen Edwards was a particle physicist who led the design and construction of the Tevatron, a machine built to probe deeper into the atom than anyone had gone before.

When it comes to building particle accelerators the credo has always been “bigger, badder, better”. While the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with its 27 km circumference and €7.5 billion budget ...

The authors present the negative results from the ANAIS-112 experiment, which uses the same target and shows strong tension with DAMA/LIBRA The ongoing quest in particle physics to discover ...

In the Master’s Programme in Particle Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, you focus on gaining an extensive understanding of these phenomena. You will also acquire proficiency in the use of ...