For a few brief moments in April, it looked like the quest as over.  It seemed like the scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN had found the elusive “God particle”. Turns out they didn’t. Scientists with the Tevatron particle accelerator at Chicago’s Fermilab facility have finally released the results of a months-long [...]

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Did they or didn’t they? Scientists are in a frenzy today over a rumor that the world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), may have just found the long-sought Higgs boson, otherwise known as the “God particle”. (UPDATE: This was not the God particle after all) It looks as though a leaked internal [...]

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