London: British theoretical physicist and Professor Stephen Hawking has recently warned that the “God” particle could destroy the universe. He says that the Higgs boson could cause a ”catastrophic vacuum decay” that undermines space-time and destroys the universe. He has unveiled this information in the introduction to a new book of scientist lectures called Starmus . He writes, “The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable […]

Washington: Scientists have moved closer to being able to stop a huge asteroid colliding with Earth and potentially wiping out human life. This fast-spinning asteroid will pass close by earth in the year 2880 and an Armageddon-style blasting it into pieces may not be a good idea. Researchers have found that the asteroid, named “1950 DA”, is a loose agglomeration of particles that cling together much as moon dust collects […]