On 4 July, physicists at a conference in Melbourne, Australia, will announce the latest results from the Large Hadron Collider. Rumours are pointing to a new particle that looks very much like the Higgs (see ‘Physicists find new particle, but is it the Higgs?‘). Geoff Brumfiel will be watching the seminar from the collider’s home at CERN, Europe’s high-energy physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland. Follow the result as it happens on the live blog below, beginning at 7:45 a.m. BST.