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A half-century scientific quest culminated early Wednesday as physicists announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle -- one theorized to be so fundamental that without it, nothing could exist.

A scientist who achieved worldwide fame with the discovery of the so-called ‘God particle’ left a £3.2 million fortune. Professor Peter Higgs was a researcher at the University of Edinburgh when he ...

LONDON — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the ...