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Immortality Studies Centered at UC Riverside Get $5-Million Gift
Even a multimillion-dollar donation does not ensure a spot in heaven. Or at least that’s what most religions believe....
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The Salvation of Extraterrestrials
Some years ago a group of scientists produced an exercise in probability: the Drake equation. It looks at the...
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God Particle Discovery Reignites Science and Religion Debate
The Higgs boson is perhaps better known by its sexier nickname: the “God particle.” But in fact, many scientists,...
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A Blip That Speaks of Our Place in the Universe
It is natural for those not deeply involved in the half-century quest for the Higgs Boson – one of...
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Why “Big Science” Is Worth the Cost
Physicists at CERN delivered big news when they announced the almost certain discovery of the Higgs boson — the...
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A Closer Look at the Higgs Boson
Scientists working at the world’s biggest atom smasher near Geneva have announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle...
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“It’s a Boson:” Higgs Quest Bears New Particle
Scientists at Europe’s CERN research centre have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe,...
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Physicists Find New Particle, but Is it the Higgs?
Physicists in Europe will present evidence of an entirely new particle on July 4, Nature has learned. But more...
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U.S. Scientists See Stronger Hints of Higgs
Hints of the Higgs boson detected last year by a US “atom smasher” have become even stronger, scientists have...