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This epic year for science saw the discovery of the Higgs boson and Curiosity’s arrival on Mars, but researchers also felt the sting of austerity.

On Wednesday, July 4, physicists at CERN had big news to announce: the discovery of a new subatomic particle. Its properties analyzed so far bear a strong resemblance to the highly sought after Higgs boson, predicted by the Standard Model of physics.

When CERN scientists announced that they'd probably found the Higgs boson, they got more than their fair share of smack talk from the design community for presenting their discovery in Comic Sans. Even the font's creator, Vincent Connare, wasn't impressed.

PHD Comics visit particle physicist Daniel Whiteson at CERN where he talks to us about what the mysterious Higgs Boson is and how the LHC is going to find it.

Five leading theoretical physicists have been invited to the event in Switzerland on Wednesday - sparking speculation that the particle has been discovered.

Nature reporter Geoff Brumfiel reports from CERN on the quest for the Higgs.

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider say they may have glimpsed the fabled Higgs boson, but are not yet able to claim a discovery.

ATLAS and CMS have excluded the existence of a Higgs over most of the mass region 145 to 466 GeV with 95 percent certainty.

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider say that a signal that suggested they might have seen "hints" of the Higgs particle has weakened.

CERN scientists declared that over the entire range of energy the Collider had explored—from 145 to 466 billion electron volts—the Higgs boson is excluded as a possibility with a 95% probability.