JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: NEW SUBATOMIC PARTICLE DISCOVERED AT CERN - THE WONDER THAT IS MODERN SCIENCE

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Scientists discover new subatomic particle at Large Hadron Collider laboratory

Physicists hope findings will help explain a key force that binds matter together

Wonderful.

We really do live in an amazing time for science.

Huge dedicated machines.

New technologies emerging regularly to make even better ones.

And many hundreds of thousands of clever people able to work full-time on their science - truly an era unlike any previous one.