Frank Close tells us about the history of particle physics, and what it means that charge in our universe's matter is so ...

The discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012 represented a major turning point for particle physics marking the completion of what is known as the standard model of particle physics. Yet, the standard ...

The 2012 edition summarizes 2,658 new measurements from 644 papers; 112 comprehensive review articles, covering every subject of importance in both particle physics and cosmology, are a major feature.

Particle physics describes the universe at the smallest scale. This includes subatomic particles, like protons and neutrons, as well as elementary particles, like quarks and electrons, which make ...

Here’s what I liked about the book: it is extremely detailed. It takes us through 12 important experiments within physics from roughly the last century and a half. The experiments range from the ...

Well, it's one of a couple of possibilities," Bruce Schumm, a professor of physics at the University of California–Santa Cruz, and the author of a popular book on particle physics, told Salon.