The discovery of the Higgs boson is one of the greatest scientific landmarks of recent years - but would it be so iconic if the particle were called Brout-Englert-Higgs, the SM Scalar boson or BEHGHK?

Scientists argue that Higgs, the genial but reclusive Edinburgh University physicist who predicted the existence of the 'God particle' in a 1964 paper, was just one of six researchers involved.

The nature of dark matter continues to perplex astronomers. As the search for dark matter particles continues to turn up nothing, it’s tempting to throw out the dark matter model altogether, but ...

There are probably very few people on this globe who at some point in time haven’t heard the term ‘Higgs Boson’ zip past, along with the term ‘God Particle’. As during the 2010s the scientists at CERN ...

François Englert shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Higgs for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that gives mass to subatomic particles. For this work, he collaborated with Robert ...

. But when pressed by journalists afterwards on what exactly "it" was, things got more complicated. "We have discovered a boson – now we have to find out what boson it is," he said cryptically. Eh?

Gordon Fraser and Michael Riordan argue that the boson discovered at CERN should be known not as the Higgs boson, but the "higgson" A new boson Now that a fundamental scalar boson has finally turned ...

There are probably very few people on this globe who at some point in time haven’t heard the term ‘Higgs Boson’ zip past, along with the term ‘God Particle’. As during the 2010s the scientists at CERN ...

A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but does it matter what a subatomic particle is called? Earlier this month, organisers of a physics meeting requested that the Higgs boson – the ...

The goal of high energy physics (also known as particle physics) is to determine the most fundamental building blocks of matter and to understand the interactions between these particles. The ...