Over the next few weeks, Inside Science will release a series of news articles, blog posts, and a video news piece covering the Games of the XXX Olympiad.
Results from two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe have just confirmed the existence of a new heavy particle, likely to be the long-sought Higgs boson.
Hypothesized nearly 50 years ago, but not yet definitively detected, the Higgs particles would permeate space and gives other particles, such as electrons and quarks, their mass.
