Although our universe may seem stable, having existed for a whopping 13.7 billion years, several experiments suggest that it is at risk – walking on the edge of a very dangerous cliff. And it’s all down to the instability of a single fundamental particle: the Higgs boson. In new research by me and my colleagues, …
The reaction of physicist Peter Higgs was only lukewarm when it came to the most important theoretical work of his lifetime, the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle on July 4, 2012, which was done with the help of the Large Hadron Collider. The particle had garnered much limelight within the scientific community and was …
As part of NASA’s Mars Sample Return (MSR ) programme, the Perseverance rover has been collecting samples since it landed on the Red Planet in 2021, and the return was scheduled to happen in 2031. However, a NASA statement on April 15 suggests that the mission will have to be reworked with a simpler, less …