Cern discovers new particle consistent with Higgs boson predictions

Dan Worth
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Organisation appears to have made huge scientific breakthrough

Cern has announced the discovery of a new particle by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that is almost certainly the long-sought for Higgs boson. The development represents a major breakthrough in...

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