'God Particle' 'Discovered': European Researchers Claim Discovery of Higgs Boson-Like Particle

The head of the European Center for Nuclear Research says its teams have discovered a new particle that is consistent with the Higgs boson -- a subatomic particle considered so significant to the understanding of the universe that it has been called the God particle. "We have a discovery [that is] consistent with a Higgs boson," Rolf Heuer, director of CERN, the European research center, said Wednesday. Two independent teams at CERN, the physics lab in the Alps on the French-Swiss border,...Full Story