Today, CERN announced that they have found a boson right where the Standard Model predicts the Higgs boson to be. It's incredibly exciting news, made even more interesting by the fact that this boson doesn't behave quite like the SM predicts that the Higgs boson should. There's much more research to be done, but this could very well end up having the same type of impact that the discovery of electron had. There's a very good write up about the whole thing over that Bad Astronomy, if you want more details. Congratulations to all the scientists and engineers who worked on the project, and happy 4th of July to everyone in the US.
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