Higgs boson shows scientists new tricks

A new result from the Large Hadron Collider strengthens the case that the Higgs interacts with both types of particles in the Standard Model. Scientists reported in Nature Physics this week that they have found substantial evidence of a previously unconfirmed property of the Higgs boson—that it gives mass to particles of both types found in the Standard Model of physics. The fundamental building blocks of the universe can be sorted into two particle categories: fermions and bosons. “All ‘m...