Eureka! Physicists celebrate evidence of particle

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 - 06:00 in Physics & Chemistry

To cheers and standing ovations from scientists, the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson — popularly known as the "God particle" — that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape.

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