Videos

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  Brian Greene and Lawrence Krauss on CERN’s Higgs Announcement

  On the morning of December 13, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that its Large Hadron Collider had found evidence which leads them to believe that...

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  Ask Brian Greene: Why Do We Think the Higgs Particle Exists?

  Brian Greene explains why the theoretical Higgs Boson is so important to the Standard Model of Physics, the backbone of how we understand the world around us.

Blog Posts

• Fermilab Data Hints at Higgs Boson

  While the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland gets all the press, the search for the elusive Higgs boson has actually been a race between two particle colliders.

• Higgs Signal Gains Strength

  Yesterday, February 7th, Scientific American reported that the latest analyses of the Large Hadron Collider data has raised the signal strength to 4.30 Sigma. Just shy of what is needed to make an official discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson.

• Brian Greene in NY Times: Waiting for the Higgs

  This morning, the New York Times published an op-ed piece by WSF co-founder and theoretical physicist Brian Greene. In it, he explains the origins of the now famous Higgs boson, and Peter Higgs, who hypothesized its existence in 1964.

• Brian Greene Reacts to Today’s CERN Announcement

  Earlier this morning, CERN made a much-anticipated announcement about its progress in finding the elusive Higgs particle. Here, Brian Greene explains the significance of the news.