Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, there has been ongoing research there into Higgs bosons and a search for traces of physics beyond the existing model of elementary particles. Scientists ...

This press release is also available in German. There are two fundamentally distinct families of particles in nature: bosons and fermions. Being a boson or a fermion has profound consequences on the ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Large Hadron Collider at CERN isn’t a single-purpose ...

Bosons and fermions, the two classes into which all particles--from the sub-atomic to atoms themselves--can be sorted, behave very differently under most circumstances. While identical bosons like to ...

The Higgs boson has existed since the earliest moments of our universe. Its directionless field permeates all of space and entices transient particles to slow down and burgeon with mass. Without the ...

Physicists are on the hunt for dark forces. These forces are not as ominous as they sound: “dark” simply refers to the fact that no one has observed them before. In this case, they would act between ...