The National Academies of Sciences couldn't have picked a better time to release its new video, "Exploring the Heart of Matter," in which some of the nation's top nuclear physicists - including Jozef Dudek of Old Dominion - explain their research in layman's terms.

Although the video does not directly address the Higgs boson, it was released just a few days before the announcement at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva of the discovery of a particle believed to be the elusive Higgs. That CERN announcement on July 4 was front-page news around the globe because the Higgs particle is thought to be an indicator of how subatomic particles acquire mass...

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