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Scientists working at the world's biggest atom smasher plan to announce Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to show that the long-sought "God particle" answering fundamental questions about the universe almost certainly does exist....

Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The latest results from the Large Hadron Collider serve as a reality check for expectations that radical scientific discoveries are just around the corner.

Operators of the world's largest atom smasher restarted their massive machine Sunday in a run up to experiments probing secrets of the universe, a spokeswoman said....