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Scientists at CERN spent the last decade waiting for a one-in-ten-billion chance event, and now they’ll spend the next few years figuring out whether it challenges the laws that (we think) govern the smallest building blocks of matter.


A tiny subatomic particle could present a big challenge to the Standard Model.

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