Top 10 Discoveries of 2012: Nat Geo News's Most Popular

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7. "God Particle" Found?

Illustration by Moonrunner Design Ltd., National Geographic

In July, two separate teams working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported they were more than 99 percent certain they've discovered the Higgs boson, aka the God particle—or at the least a brand-new particle exactly where they expected the Higgs to be.
The long-sought particle may complete the standard model of physics by explaining why objects in our universe have mass—and in so doing, why galaxies, planets, and even humans have any right to exist.
(See Large Hadron Collider pictures.)
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Published December 3, 2012

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