Scientists claimed Tuesday that they had found “tantalizing hints” of the Higgs boson, a sought-after particle that would confirm the way science describes the Universe.

Experiments at Europe’s giant atom smasher have “reduced the window where scientists think they will find the Higgs boson,” also known as the God Particle, said Bruno Mansoulie, a researcher at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN).

The Higgs boson is the missing link in the so-called Standard Model of physics, which explains how the basic building blocks of observed matter fit together.

Its existence — if confirmed — would explain in a single stroke the mystery of what gives this invisible constellation of particles mass.

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