Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of theorized particle

Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), answers a journalist’s question about the scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, S...

GENEVA (AP) — Scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher hailed the discovery of “the missing cornerstone of physics” Wednesday, cheering the apparent end of a decades-long quest for a new subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, or “God particle,” which...

Published: 07/05/2012