Uploaded October 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Produced on site at New Scientist Live 2016! This was a question from the #MendeleyWall, a giant wall in the Mendeley booth where people wrote down the questions they had for science. Dr. Alfredo Carpineti (@DrCarpineti) explained the Higgs boson to us, and we turned the explanation into this video!

Illustrated by Claudia Stocker (vividbiology.com), edited by Lisa Dennison (sciencesketches.org), background music by Jeff Woodruff (sciencesketches.org).