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The 5 most groundbreaking scientific achievements of the decade

• https://newatlas.com by Michael Irving

The world has seen some pretty major scientific achievements in the last 10 years, as discoveries and developments decades in the making were finally realized. New Atlas rounds up five of the most ground-breaking, history-making milestones of the 2010s.

In 2012, a new elementary particle was discovered at CERN that caught the attention of the world – even those who may not normally be across particle physics news. But that's because this was no ordinary particle. This newcomer was none other than the Higgs boson.

While it may have captured the public imagination due to its dramatic but inaccurate nickname, "the God particle," the Higgs boson was an incredibly exciting find for a number of reasons. It was the final elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics, it gives mass to other elementary particles, and scientists had been hunting for it for almost 50 years.


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