I believe it was always a bit of an embarrassment to Higgs that this symmetry-breaking mechanism was sometimes shortened to the "Higgs mechanism". He was always quick to point out everyone else's ...

The mechanism predicts a particle - the Higgs boson - which was finally discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, in Switzerland. “This year's prize is about something small ...

(Bloomberg) -- Peter Higgs, the British physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 2013 for his discovery decades earlier of a theoretical mechanism to explain the origin of mass in the universe ...

New findings could help identify patients likely to become resistant to anti-cancer drugs and aid exploring different ways to ...