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a deep dive into the mysterious, mass-conferring particle

Lizzie Gibney and Federico Levi discuss the discovery of the Higgs boson and the remaining questions about this mysterious particle.

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In this Podcast Extra, Nature’s Lizzie Gibney and Federico Levi dive deep into the Higgs boson, describing their experience since discovering it, what the latest run of the Large Hadron Collider may reveal about the particle’s properties, and what role it may play in potential physics beyond the standard model.

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