"IT’S A BOSON": HIGGS QUEST BEARS NEW PARTICLE

"We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature," CERN director said.

"It’s a boson": Higgs quest bears new particle
Posted 05.07.2012 06:52:03 UTC
Updated 05.07.2012 07:07:56 UTC

Scientists at Europe's CERN research center have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the boson imagined and named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs.

"We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature," CERN director general Rolf Heuer told a gathering of scientists and the world's media near Geneva on Wednesday.

Reuters