Physics
Higgs Mechanism
Quick fact
The Higgs mechanism predicts the existence of the Higgs boson, which was discovered at CERN in 2012, over 40 years after its proposal.
Why this is interesting
Have you ever wondered why some particles have mass while others, like photons, are massless? In the 1960s, physicists proposed a hidden field that gives mass to the building blocks of matter—but how does it work?