So it turns out the Higgs Boson sounds like Cuban dance music

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Yes, you read that right. The second CERN scientists announced the discovery of a Higgs-like particle, researchers at Europe's DANTE set to "sonifying" the latest batch of collider data, giving rise to the piano medley below. Go ahead and give it a listen — Discovery News describes it as "a melody which resembles the dotted rhythm of the habanera, a Cuban dance which became popular in Spain in the early 19th century." More »