On 4 July, physicists at a conference in Melbourne, Australia, announced the latest results from the Large Hadron Collider. They have seen a clear signal of a Higgs boson — a key part of the mechanism that gives all particles their masses.

Nature News’ Geoff Brumfiel, was watching the seminar at CERN, Europe’s high-energy physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland. He blogged the results live: Continue reading →