GENEVA, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Scientists at Europe's CERN research centre said on Wednesday they may be able to definitively announce at a conference next March that they had discovered the elusive Higgs ...

To cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson — ...

The discovery of a new subatomic particle that is likely the elusive Higgs boson — a particle thought to give all other matter its mass — could be an important step toward uncovering the invisible ...

CERN's announcement on July 4 -- that experiments performed by the Large Hadron Collider had discovered a particle that was consistent with the Higgs boson -- has passed a key step towards becoming ...