Tag: Cern

PRINCETON. That's one of those rarest events that moves directly from the science page of the New York Times to textbooks. Something like Newton's apple, or Dark Matter. Forty-eight years after the paper where a young Peter Higgs (and...

That Goddamn Particle...  One of the ongoing dilemmas of science has been coming up with an explanation of the origin of mass. Understanding its make up, disposition, origin is tantamount to understanding who God is, assuming you believe in such...

It may all sound like the plot of a Dan Brown novel, but it seems that fact is now, if not actually more exciting than fiction, definitely getting there. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern near Geneva...