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Hunt the HIGGS

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You can Hunt the Higgs with physicist of CERN More than two years after physicists discovered the Higgs boson, there’s still a lot they don’t know about the elusive particle. Now, they want your help to make the next discovery about this particle with a new citizen-science project called  Higgs Hunters . That’s right, some of the brainiest physicists in the world would like you to pitch in. The Higgs boson was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. It may sound strange that even with this enormous, $5-billion machine, and all the scientific power applied to the data it collects, scientists still need people like you to help. But the human mind is still better than the most sophisticated algorithm at some tasks, and scouring the LHC data for more evidence of the Higgs is one of those. The data is created when the LHC slams together beams of protons careening at near-light-speed. When the particles