Mr. Higgs received a round of applause as he entered the auditorium, and shed a tear when news of the Higgs-like particle was announced.

WSJ: New Particle Found, Consistent With Higgs Boson

Indeed, until they do so, they are reluctant to definitively crown the boson, preferring often to say just that they have found a "Higgs-like" particle.

BBC: Cosmos may be 'inherently unstable'

The wavefunction describes just how wave-like a particle actually is.

ECONOMIST: Superconductors

According to quantum theory, all particles are wave-like (and all waves particle-like).

ECONOMIST: Superconductors

Unlike the familiar three of length, breadth and height, these extra dimensions are curled up so tightly that they elude detection (though scientists are trying to prise them open in particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva).

ECONOMIST: Cosmology

Cohen took the malaria surface protein used in Ballou's vaccine and fused it to a protein from the hepatitis B virus, creating a harmless particle that looked like a virus to the immune system.

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Light behaves like both a wave and a particle.

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That Tron-ish, equalizer-like graphic is actually a 3D representation of particle activity left behind by cosmic rays interacting within NOvA, the Department of Energy's under construction neutrino detector.

ENGADGET

First up is AirBot, a "particle counting robot" that monitors pollutants that can contribute to breathing problems like asthma.

ENGADGET: AirBot and WaterBot help localize pollution data collection (video)

At E3, the Epic representative breezed through a level editor that looked more like a game itself, changing the properties of items, lighting effects, and particle physics with single clicks, before opening up a screen showing a flow chart of boxes that contained every script running in any given room.

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For the particle slice, this vertical slice in time I am happy, what the horizontal is like only fate can decide.

BBC

Scientists are still hedging their bets by using the phrase "Higgs-like" in their press material, but when the chances of observing the same experimental results sans God Particle are one in 550 million, we'd say it's pretty safe to drop the pretense.

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Particle pollution is measured both short-term and long-term to account for sudden, brief events like high winds and occasional wood burning.

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