Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN1 today as a curtain raiser to the year's major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV.
“We observe in our data clear signs of a new particle, at the level of 5 sigma (5 sigma is a fairly impressive level of certainty vs it being a random reading), in the mass region around 126 GeV. The outstanding performance of the LHC and ATLAS and the huge efforts of many people have brought us to this exciting stage,” said ATLAS experiment spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti, “but a little more time is needed to prepare these results for publication.
There is a proper press conference later ( http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/play_higgs.html is a decent start for a link) I believe but in the meantime they have some nice videos on their youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/CERNTV/videos
If you want another video that covers a lot of good stuff (although it is not what all scientists will go in for) on basic subatomic physics, the idea here though it the Higgs Boson is the long theorised but
TED: Garrett Lisi: A beautiful new theory of everything