Science communicators had a field day with the 2012 Higgs discovery, as it offered a chance to energize the public about fundamental physics research. Figure 1. A representation of the standard model, ...

A few weeks before Particle Fever’s world premiere at the Sheffield Documentary Festival in England, I dropped by the studio in New York where Levinson and Murch were reviewing footage, deciding ...

Johns Hopkins University’s David Kaplan was a film student turned theoretical physicist when he came up with the idea for a documentary on the search for the Higgs boson—at the time, the last ...

News broke on Wednesday that reverberated though the world of science. Well, wobbled is more like it. A New York Times headline declared that new particle research could “rewrite the laws of physics,” ...

Stakes come no higher than in Particle Fever, a dazzling, dizzying documentary about nothing less than whether we exist in a coherent universe of ordered, even beautiful laws — or whether, as ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most successful theories, hinting at unknown forces or quantum objects. Now, an ...

While it hasn't gotten quite as much attention as Cosmos, it deserves to! It's a documentary about particle physics, a feature film, playing now in about 30 cities, and coming soon to more. I already ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The NHTI Film Society will screen “Particle Fever,” about particle physics and the Hadron collider in Switzerland, at 7 p.m. Friday in the Sweeney Auditorium on the Concord campus. The documentary ...

Elementary particle physics reflects the human quest to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the rules that govern the physical world. This quest has led not only to critical scientific ...