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What can science see?

Observing the smallest building blocks of matter doesn't involve seeing in the ordinary sense.
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Stuff happens: From finance to fundamental physics

Current physical theories suggest that beautiful symmetries underly the fundamental particles and forces of nature. We describe those symmetries using an analogy from economics, and even rediscover the famous Higgs boson.
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The Higgs boson

And finally, here is how the famous Higgs boson gets into the picture.
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Particle hunting at the LHC: the particles

CERN's Large Hadron Collider is one of the few scientific experiments to sparked wide-spread media coverage, particularly with the 2012 announcement of the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson. So what really goes on at CERN and why the hubbub about the Large Hadron Collider, known as the LHC?
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We love the LHC!

Find out all about the Large Hadron Collider in this package of introductory articles.
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Particle hunting at the LHC: the Higgs boson

CERN's Large Hadron Collider is one of the few scientific experiments to sparked wide-spread media coverage, particularly with the 2012 announcement of the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson. So what really goes on at CERN and why the hubbub about the Large Hadron Collider, known as the LHC?
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Particle hunting at the LHC: the standard model

CERN's Large Hadron Collider is one of the few scientific experiments to sparked wide-spread media coverage, particularly with the 2012 announcement of the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson. So what really goes on at CERN and why the hubbub about the Large Hadron Collider, known as the LHC?