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Following is a summary of current science news briefs.
“Higgs” boson may not open door to exotic realms
GENEVA (Reuters) – A new elementary particle whose
discovery was announced with fanfare to a waiting world in July
may be just a little less exciting than scientists had hoped.
Reporting on a conference in Kyoto where the latest data from
their Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was presented, scientists at
the CERN European research center said on Thursday it seemed
very likely that the particle was indeed the long-sought Higgs
boson, which gives mass to matter.
