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Zee News
| 11 months ago
Higgs refused to be drawn on whether the discovery proved there was no God, stating the name God particle' was a joke by another academic who originally called it the goddamn particle' because it was so hard to find. The 83-year-old was giving his...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
CMS proton-proton collision in which 4 high energy electrons (green lines and red towers) are observed in a 2011 event. The event shows characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson but is also consistent with background Standard Model...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Murdo Macleod for the Guardian The physicist who gave his name to the elusive "God particle" that scientists believe they have found said on Friday it was "very nice to be right". Teams at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the £2.6bn atom-smasher near...
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The Courier-Mail
| 11 months ago
The British scientist who gave his name to what is likely to be the Higgs boson particle has spoken of his delight at the discovery, saying it was "nice to be right sometimes". Wednesday they believe they have found the sub-atomic particle thought to...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
Paul Padley of Rice University, part of one of the discovery teams: Q: So what is a Higgs boson? A: A tiny subatomic particle that apparently weighs about 130 times as much as an atom of hydrogen, the lightest gas...A: Simply put, the Higgs particle...
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NY Daily News
| 11 months ago
The apparent discovery of a particle that may explain how the universe is built has left one world-famous physicist reaching for his wallet. Stephen Hawking, whose work on the laws that govern the universe has earned him a fellowship in the Royal...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
In 1964, the British physicist Peter Higgs wrote a landmark paper hypothesizing why elementary particles have mass. He predicted the existence of a three-dimensional "field" that permeates space and drags on everything that trudges through it. Some...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
The Guardian's science correspondent, Ian Sample, reports from Cern in Switzerland as scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider announce they have conclusive evidence of a new fundamental particle that may be the Higgs boson. Ian speaks to the...
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BDNews24
| 11 months ago
Peter Higgs was no good in the lab, but he never doubted that one day his theory of a powerful subatomic particle that bears his name would be proven right in practice...Wednesday after its experimental physicists announced the discovery of a new...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
Stephen Hawking loses $100 bet over 'God particle' discovery London: Stephen Hawking has said that Peter Higgs deserved a Nobel Prize for the groundbreaking discovery of the God particle, but admitted that the findings have come at a cost for him.
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News 24
| 11 months ago
Six South African universities, under the SA-Cern programme, played a key role in the observation the Higgs-like particle announced at the Cern facility in Geneva. University of Johannesburg (UJ), contributed directly to one of the "channels" leading...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Scientists announced Wednesday that nature's most elusive and fundamental subnuclear particle has almost certainly been discovered, and Bay Area physicists who have sought it for decades were amazed, delighted and determined to pin it down at last. "...
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The News-Star
| 11 months ago
To cheers and standing ovations from scientists, the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson popularly known as the "God particle" that helps...
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Houston Chronicle
| 11 months ago
Early Wednesday morning, physicists announced the discovery of a large new particle in the reams of data collected at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Scientists have not said whether it's actually the much-sought-after Higgs boson, but they...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 11 months ago
A half-century scientific quest culminated early Wednesday as physicists announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle -- one theorized to be so fundamental that without it, nothing could exist...Peter Higgs, the University of Edinburgh...
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
In 2008, Saranya Ghosh (23) wrote an article in his college magazine on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), touted as the worlds biggest experiment, which has now confirmed the existence of a particle in consistent with long-sought Higgs boson the basic...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), two counter-rotating beams of protons accelerated to high energy are made to collide head-on to result in the creation of myriad particles, known and unknown. From the debris of trillions of such collisions,...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
The long-sought Higgs boson, dubbed by lay media as God Particle' much to the dislike and discomfiture of scientists, may have been discovered...Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the search for the Higgs particle as one of its main goals. The Higgs...
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The Independent
| 11 months ago
Suggested Topics It was a breakthrough that took almost half a century of deep thought, more than 30 years of painstaking experimentation and a massive £2.6bn machine. Yesterday, scientists said they believed they had found the subatomic particle...
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Indian Express
| 11 months ago
There was cheer also in Mumbais Tata Institute Fundamental Research. Geneva only days ago and rejoiced in the proud moment for us all. Harishchandra Research Institute in Allahabad and Institute of Physics in Bhubaneswar too were involved in the...
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Telegraph India
| 11 months ago
59 AM Sunset : 6:25 PM Today Partly clear sky...It walks, it quacks but best to check if it's God's duck G.S. New Delhi, July 4: Scientists today announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle that seems to behave like the Higgs boson, the last...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
British physicist Peter Higgs, the man who begrudgingly lent his name to an elusive particle which scientists believe is crucial to the formation of the universe, says its possible discovery is "incredible". Forty-eight years ago Professor Higgs had...
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Aardvark Daily
| 11 months ago
Ever since Heisenberg applied his mind to particle theory article last century, it became clear that we have to accept the concept of "probability" rather than certainty when dealing with all things quantum...Because it's the missing (previously...
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io9
| 11 months ago
Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a subatomic particle that's consistent with the Higgs Boson...If you were to say July 4, 2012 was the day the Higgs boson was officially discovered, you wouldn't really be wrong. Director General Rolf...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
The yellow lines are the measured tracks of other particles produced in the collision. The pale blue volume shows the CMS crystal calorimeter barrel. To cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the...
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The News & Observer
| 11 months ago
The audience could have been at a rock concert, applause erupting with each new song. Large Hadron Collider (LHC), may have found the elusive Higgs boson, nicknamed the God particle. It is the last blank to fill in the Standard Model of subatomic...
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Xtra News
| 11 months ago
Geneva confirmed on Wednesday night (NZT) they had discovered a particle fitting the description of the Higgs boson in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The theoretical particle is key to the scientific understanding of all matter.
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
The chances of error in the measurements are 1 in 3.5 million, sufficient to claim a discovery. Higgs boson-like particle in the energy window of 125.3 ± 0.6 GeV. The observation has been made with a statistical significance of 5 sigma.
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Share This Story The Higgs boson is an important find because it answers the fundamental question of where mass comes from and completes the Standard Model of Physics, which describes much of what we know of the universe through the interactions of...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Higgs-like discovery from the inside Inventing a whole-universe-filling-field to make your maths come out right is quite extreme...We've all talked before about rumours, about hints, about projections and the hows and whys. But finally we have,...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
July 4, 2012 Scientists have discovered a new subatomic particle with profound implications for understanding our universe. On Wednesday, they announced they've found a particle believed to be the long-awaited Higgs boson. Nicknamed the "God Particle,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
In a culmination of 50 years of theoretical speculation and three weeks of intense media frenzy, two teams of researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research said they had independently discovered evidence for a "Higgs-like" boson, the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
The yellow lines are the measured tracks of other particles produced in the collision. The pale blue volume shows the CMS crystal calorimeter barrel. To cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the...
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The Courier-Mail
| 11 months ago
Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking has said the Nobel Prize should be given to Peter Higgs, the man who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle. The former Cambridge University professor also joked that the discovery had actually cost him $...
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The Daily Herald
| 11 months ago
European Organization for Nuclear Research, said its researchers observed a particle that may be the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle that could explain where mass comes from. The announcement coincides with the 36th International Conference on...
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War In Context
| 11 months ago
Fabiola Gianotti. 'We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV...A little more time is needed to finalize these results, and more data and more study will be needed to determine the...
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Ansa
| 11 months ago
Italian physicists have helped discover a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, the long-sought building block of the universe that gives matter its mass. The boson, the Holy Grail of particle physics, has been popularly dubbed the God...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Wonder if he's conceded defeat? #Higgs #ichep2012 12.03pm: The science community seems agreed: this is a big moment. But many, like Heuer, are cautioning that this could be just the beginning. Dr Roberto Trotta, Lecturer in Cosmology at Imperial...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 11 months ago
He said the newly discovered subatomic particle is a boson, but he stopped just shy of claiming outright that it is the Higgs boson itself an extremely fine distinction. "As a layman, I think we did it," he told the elated crowd. "We have a discovery.
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
One of the most anticipated moments in the history of modern science could happen today (Wednesday). In a packed auditorium, scientists at Cern, the European nuclear research institute that operates the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will reveal the...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
More studies, however, will be needed to pin down the exact nature of the boson, which is the most massive ever seen, scientist said. "This is indeed a new particle," Joe Incandela, spokesman for the CMS detector said. "The implications are very...
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The Independent
| 11 months ago
The discovery of the new sub-atomic particle is consistent with the so-called Higgs boson that was postulated half a century ago by the retired British physicist Peter Higgs, 83, who was in the audience at a packed conference in Geneva this morning...
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GMA News
| 11 months ago
Auditorium on July 4 in Geneva, Switzerland, physicists say they have found a new subatomic particle that has properties "consistent" with the long sought-after Higgs Boson. Since the 1960's, scientists have been in search of the Higgs Boson...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
CMS experiments have observed a new fundamental particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson. Now the exciting work of understanding its significance begins...The analyses are still being consolidated, and are expected to reach maturity by...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
Higgs-like new particle found Zeenews Bureau Geneva: In one of the most significant scientific discoveries ever, two independent teams of scientists announced on Wednesday the discovery of a new subatomic particle that has close resemblance to the...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
A representation of traces of a proton-proton collision in the search for the Higgs boson, released by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern). Photograph: AFP/Getty Images There comes a time in a scientist's life when the weight of...
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Scoop
| 11 months ago
CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV. We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
Confirmation may have to wait until the end of 2012 Scientists could have caught their first glimpse of the Higgs Boson, the curious particle thought to underpin the subatomic workings of nature. Large Hadron Collider (LHC), revealed evidence for the...
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Novinite
| 11 months ago
Scientists may have made the biggest scientific discovery of the century by capturing the elusive Higgs boson particle that gives matter mass and holds the physical fabric of the universe together...That is confirmed," he has pointed out. "It's a...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images The canteen at Cern , the particle physics laboratory and home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the outskirts of Geneva, is always abuzz with conversation and rumour, but in recent days one topic has dominated...
