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We've heard a lot in the news lately about the elusive Higgs boson particle. But what is it exactly, and what impact is its discovery likely to have on ordinary people? 神马福利影片 particle physicist Daniel Scully offers a short guide to the Higgs boson and reflects on why this could be one of the biggest scientific discoveries of his lifetime.

Today, July 4th 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have made an historic announcement: a particle consistent with the much-sought-after Higgs boson has been found. Edinburgh Professor Peter Higgs first proposed the existence of the so-called "God Particle" almost 50 years ago - here Warwick physicists help to explain the significance of this new discovery.

The Warwick astronomy group has been very successful in the latest round of time allocation on the Hubble Space Telescope. Boris Gaensicke, Andrew Levan, Danny Steeghs and Peter Wheatley will be leading six programs on HST in the forthcoming Cycle 20, including one of the five large programs that were awarded. Their projects were facing an over-subscription of six.