Summary: <p>Early this month, researchers at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced that they found convincing evidence of a new particle called the Higgs boson. Sometimes called the "god particle," the Higgs boson gives mass to the elementary particles that make up the universe. <a rel="nofollow" class="guestlink">Brian Greene</a>, Professor of Mathematics and Physics and author of <em>The Elegant Universe</em>, <em>The Fabric of the Cosmos</em>, and <em>The Hidden Reality</em>, and <a rel="nofollow" class="guestlink">Kyle Cranmer</a>,<em> </em>Assistant Professor of Physics at New York University, help us decipher what the Higgs is and why it matters, and explain how the Large Hadron Collider works.</p><p></p><div class="user-embedded-video"><div id="videoplayer_id1168662729333331faf59-0a3f-407e-b8d0-e583316de079"></div></div>
