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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
The Guardian's science correspondent, Ian Sample, reports from Cern in Switzerland as scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider announce they have conclusive evidence of a new fundamental particle that may be the Higgs boson. Ian speaks to the...
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Fox
| 11 months ago
LiveScience Physicists at the world's largest atom smasher announced July 4 that they are more than 99 percent sure they've found a new, and heavy, boson particle, that may be the Higgs boson. Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in...
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BDNews24
| 11 months ago
Peter Higgs was no good in the lab, but he never doubted that one day his theory of a powerful subatomic particle that bears his name would be proven right in practice...Wednesday after its experimental physicists announced the discovery of a new...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
Stephen Hawking loses $100 bet over 'God particle' discovery London: Stephen Hawking has said that Peter Higgs deserved a Nobel Prize for the groundbreaking discovery of the God particle, but admitted that the findings have come at a cost for him.
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News 24
| 11 months ago
Six South African universities, under the SA-Cern programme, played a key role in the observation the Higgs-like particle announced at the Cern facility in Geneva. University of Johannesburg (UJ), contributed directly to one of the "channels" leading...
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SF Gate
| 11 months ago
Scientists announced Wednesday that nature's most elusive and fundamental subnuclear particle has almost certainly been discovered, and Bay Area physicists who have sought it for decades were amazed, delighted and determined to pin it down at last. "...
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Houston Chronicle
| 11 months ago
Early Wednesday morning, physicists announced the discovery of a large new particle in the reams of data collected at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Scientists have not said whether it's actually the much-sought-after Higgs boson, but they...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
AFP In a discovery that throws light on the very fabric of space and time, a new subatomic particle has been found that is very likely the long-sought Higgs boson. Making one of the most anticipated and exciting announcements in modern science last...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
The long-sought Higgs boson, dubbed by lay media as God Particle' much to the dislike and discomfiture of scientists, may have been discovered...Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the search for the Higgs particle as one of its main goals. The Higgs...
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Telegraph India
| 11 months ago
59 AM Sunset : 6:25 PM Today Partly clear sky...It walks, it quacks but best to check if it's God's duck G.S. New Delhi, July 4: Scientists today announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle that seems to behave like the Higgs boson, the last...
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Aardvark Daily
| 11 months ago
Ever since Heisenberg applied his mind to particle theory article last century, it became clear that we have to accept the concept of "probability" rather than certainty when dealing with all things quantum...Because it's the missing (previously...
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io9
| 11 months ago
Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of a subatomic particle that's consistent with the Higgs Boson...If you were to say July 4, 2012 was the day the Higgs boson was officially discovered, you wouldn't really be wrong. Director General Rolf...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Higgs boson itself — an extremely fine distinction.
"As a layman, I think we did it," he told the elated crowd. "We have a discovery. We have observed a new particle that is consistent with a Higgs boson."
The Higgs, which...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
Wednesday the discovery of a subatomic particle that fits the description of the Higgs boson, also known as the "God Particle." Scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory say the development is historic. Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to...
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World News
| 11 months ago
Rolf Heuer confirmed that two separate teams working at the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) are more than 99 percent certain they've discovered the Higgs boson , aka the God particle or at the least a brand-new particle exactly where they expected the...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Higgs-like discovery from the inside Inventing a whole-universe-filling-field to make your maths come out right is quite extreme...We've all talked before about rumours, about hints, about projections and the hows and whys. But finally we have,...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
July 4, 2012 Scientists have discovered a new subatomic particle with profound implications for understanding our universe. On Wednesday, they announced they've found a particle believed to be the long-awaited Higgs boson. Nicknamed the "God Particle,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 11 months ago
In a culmination of 50 years of theoretical speculation and three weeks of intense media frenzy, two teams of researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research said they had independently discovered evidence for a "Higgs-like" boson, the...
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The Daily Herald
| 11 months ago
European Organization for Nuclear Research, said its researchers observed a particle that may be the Higgs boson, a theoretical particle that could explain where mass comes from. The announcement coincides with the 36th International Conference on...
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War In Context
| 11 months ago
Fabiola Gianotti. 'We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma, in the mass region around 126 GeV...A little more time is needed to finalize these results, and more data and more study will be needed to determine the...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
This is the origin of the universe.' In what will prove a milestone in the history of modern science, the revelation ends almost five decades of searching for the subatomic particle...The preliminary results, delivered to applause and whoops of...
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The Age
| 11 months ago
Story continues below How are scientists looking for Higgs boson? Physicists conduct experiments at the Large Hadron Collider which involve smashing together beams containing billions of particles, at high speed and within a vacuum, and watching the...
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Chicago Tribune
| 11 months ago
Rolf Heuer told a gathering of scientists and the world's media near Geneva on Wednesday. "The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new...
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Ansa
| 11 months ago
Italian physicists have helped discover a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson, the long-sought building block of the universe that gives matter its mass. The boson, the Holy Grail of particle physics, has been popularly dubbed the God...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 11 months ago
Higgs boson , the basic building block of the universe. "We have indeed discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson," John Womersley, head of a British public research body, told journalists and scientists in London on Wednesday. "These...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Indian scientific and technological contributions are among the many that keeps the world's biggest particle physics laboratory buzzing. Wednesday claimed to have spotted a sub-atomic particle "consistent" with the Higgs boson or 'God particle',...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
They have both finally seen hints of what might turn out be the elusive particle when more data is gathered next year. Alternatively, the experimentalists say that a year from now they should have enough data to rule out the existence of the most...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 11 months ago
He said the newly discovered subatomic particle is a boson, but he stopped just shy of claiming outright that it is the Higgs boson itself an extremely fine distinction. "As a layman, I think we did it," he told the elated crowd. "We have a discovery.
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Rediff
| 11 months ago
Wednesday that they have discovered a new subatomic particle that looks like the one believed to be crucial for formation of the universe...Director General Rolf Heuer. "The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
More studies, however, will be needed to pin down the exact nature of the boson, which is the most massive ever seen, scientist said. "This is indeed a new particle," Joe Incandela, spokesman for the CMS detector said. "The implications are very...
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The Independent
| 11 months ago
The discovery of the new sub-atomic particle is consistent with the so-called Higgs boson that was postulated half a century ago by the retired British physicist Peter Higgs, 83, who was in the audience at a packed conference in Geneva this morning...
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
Scientists rarely say they are absolutely sure of something, but physicists gathered in Australia for a high-level conference on Wednesday seemed certain that a missing piece in their understanding of all the fundamental particles of nature and their...
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GMA News
| 11 months ago
Auditorium on July 4 in Geneva, Switzerland, physicists say they have found a new subatomic particle that has properties "consistent" with the long sought-after Higgs Boson. Since the 1960's, scientists have been in search of the Higgs Boson...
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Mail Online UK
| 11 months ago
The existence of the Higgs boson was put forward in the 1960s to explain why the tiny particles that make up atoms have mass. The Higgs is the last missing piece of the Standard Model, the theory that describes the basic building blocks of the...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
Higgs-like new particle found Zeenews Bureau Geneva: In one of the most significant scientific discoveries ever, two independent teams of scientists announced on Wednesday the discovery of a new subatomic particle that has close resemblance to the...
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SwissInfo
| 11 months ago
We have observed a new particle consistent with the Higgs Boson which one? That remains open, Cern Director General Rolf Heuer told a seminar at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva on Wednesday. This is indeed a new particle.
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The Hindu
| 11 months ago
Confirmation may have to wait until the end of 2012 Scientists could have caught their first glimpse of the Higgs Boson, the curious particle thought to underpin the subatomic workings of nature. Large Hadron Collider (LHC), revealed evidence for the...
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Novinite
| 11 months ago
Scientists may have made the biggest scientific discovery of the century by capturing the elusive Higgs boson particle that gives matter mass and holds the physical fabric of the universe together...That is confirmed," he has pointed out. "It's a...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Some crucial details of the Higgs Boson, aka God Particle, have been accidentally leaked by the Cern Physics lab in Geneva ahead of schedule. The long-awaited press conference is about to take place on Wednesday 09:00 am (local time) and the video...
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Sky News
| 11 months ago
The hunt for the fabled "God particle" that lends mass to matter and holds the universe together could soon be over. Scientists giving a progress report on the search later are expected to say they are almost at the point of confirming the existence...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
53 European physicists will make an announcement on Wednesday on their latest findings in the quest to find the Higgs boson. Find out what the theory behind the Higgs particle is and what role it is thought to play in the universe.
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Xtra News
| 11 months ago
Highly anticipated scientific announcement Newstalk ZB July 4, 2012, 9:54 am Today could see one of the most anticipated moments in the history of modern science become a reality. Physicists from around the world are eagerly awaiting an announcement...
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Venture Beat
| 11 months ago
European Organization for Nuclear Research, posted then deleted a video confirming the observation of what might have been the Higgs boson, also known by the rather sensationalist moniker, the God particle. We've observed a new particle, said Large...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 11 months ago
Story continues below Researchers using two huge detectors at the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, will announce the latest results of their searches at a joint scientific seminar in Geneva and Melbourne, where the...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images The canteen at Cern , the particle physics laboratory and home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the outskirts of Geneva, is always abuzz with conversation and rumour, but in recent days one topic has dominated...
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
It's a definite maybe Cern scientists seeking the 'God particle' will express their latest finding from the Large Hadron Collider in terms of a 'four-sigma confidence interval'...Cern is preparing to announce the latest result from the Large Hadron...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 11 months ago
Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher plan to announce Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to show that the long-sought "God particle" answering fundamental questions about the universe almost certainly does exist...The...
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Fox
| 11 months ago
Scientists say the world's biggest atom smasher plans to announce Wednesday enough evidence has been gathered to show that the long-sought "God particle" answering fundamental questions about the universe does indeed exist...Swiss-French border say...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
John Ellis says "we've discovered something which is consistent with being a Higgs."
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
July 2, 2012 Before we get to the fireworks on the Fourth of July, we might see some pyrotechnics from a giant physics experiment near Geneva, Switzerland. Scientists there are planning to gather that morning to hear the latest about the decades-long...
