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26 December 2012

2012: The year in scientific discoveries

  • Lost and found
    In July, two separate teams at the Large Hadron Collider said they had each independently confirmed the existence of a particle that could be the Higgs boson. (Copyright: Cern)

From a new species of monkey to mysterious new planets, scientists were kept busy in 2012.

More amazing image galleries of the year:

A year in space

The year in technology

People of the year

The year in weather

The year in wildlife

Weird and wonderful

Future visions

Places

New frontiers

 

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