It’s one thing to know a fact, but it’s another to explain it, as a curious advance in particle physics shows. Ever since the proton was discovered 89 years ago, physicists have been able to measure the mass of the particle–which, along with another called the neutron, makes up the atomic nucleus. But even with [...]

Perhaps the greatest achievement of scientists involved in the LHC project is to prove the existence Higgs particle, the so-called “particle of God” hypothetical element, proved impossible until now, which is believed to include all mass particles of Universe, except making photons and neutrons (not to be confused with neutrons - particles of atomic nucleus). [...]