Higgs Boson discovery tops Science picks for 2012
- Published: 21 Dec 2012 at 08.46
- Online news: Asia
The discovery of the Higgs Boson, an invisible particle that explains the mystery of mass, leads a list of the top 10 scientific advances of 2012 released by the US journal Science.
Graphic distributed on July 4, 2012 by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) shows a representation of traces of a proton-proton collision measured in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) in the search for the Higgs Boson particle. The discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, leads a list of the top 10 scientific advances of 2012 released Thursday by the US journal Science.
Without the Higgs Boson, scientists believe, we and all the other joined-up atoms in the Universe would not exist.
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