When CERN announced the discovery of a new particle last week, it was very, very careful to not explicitly call that particle the Higgs boson, instead citing "strong evidence" for the discovery of "a particle consistent with the Higgs boson." Now we know why: a new analysis suggests that CERN's data may show an "impostor" particle, and not the Higgs.

Early this morning, CERN held a press conference to announce the latest results from its quest to find the Higgs boson, the very last unobserved particle that makes up the Standard Model of physics. The announcement included "strong indications for the presence of a new particle," but is it the Higgs? We'll take you through it from start to finish.

Here's one for the books. CERN's Large Hadron Collider has once again been shut down. No catastrophic helium leak or failing magnets this time. The culprit? A speck of bread, which officials believe was originally part of a larger baguette....

At long last, it seems the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland will get to doing what it was designed to do: collidin' particles. After a catastrophic failure late last year ground everything to a halt,...