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Stephen Hawking lost a $100 bet that the Higgs particle wouldn’t be found

British scientist Stephen Hawking gives a lecture at KU Leuven university in Belgium in 2011. (AFP Photo/Bruno Fahy)

Renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking said Wednesday the Nobel Prize should be given to Peter Higgs, the man who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle. Former Cambridge University professor Hawking also joked that the discovery had actually cost him $100 in a bet. In an interview with the…

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CERN announces discovery of new particle in leaked video

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The Cern physics laboratory near Geneva appeared to leak crucial details of its hunt for the long-sought Higgs boson particle on Tuesday when it accidentally posted a video announcing the discovery of a new particle on its website. Senior scientists at Cern are due to reveal the latest findings in…

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Scientists find ‘strong hints’ of elusive ‘God particle’

Scientists work at the three-story, 6,000-ton CDF Collider Detector at Fermilab) in the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), just outside Batavia, Illinois. Physicists reported finding strong hints of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that is believed to give objects mass, but said European data is needed to confirm any potential discovery. (AFP Photo/-)

US-based physicists Monday reported finding strong hints of the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that is believed to give objects mass, but said European data is needed to confirm any potential discovery. If physicists can confirm the existence of the Higgs boson, the last missing piece in the standard model…

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