“Dead” Idea From the 1800s Could Finally Reveal Why the Universe Exists

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...
Brown University

Q&A: Brown physicist on the Higgs boson and whether it might change the fate of the universe

Scientists from around the world are at Brown to discuss what is known, and what needs to be learned, about the long-sought particle discovered a decade ago.

The beginning of the universe: Cosmic inflation with standard particle physics repertoire

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Chinese American Nobel laureate who pioneered modern particle theory dies at 103

Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang, who spent decades advancing physics in both the U.S. and China, died in Beijing on Saturday at ...
Purdue University

Purdue physicists part of discovery of rare particle decay predicted by the Standard Model

Red lines show the disintegration of a B-sub-s into two muons in the CMS camera at the Large Hadron Collider. Yello, green and blue are used to denote particles other than muons. Purdue University ...
The Conversation

Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe

Harald Fox receives funding from UKRI. Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, has died aged 94. He was always a modest man, especially when considering that ...