We were expecting it – but it’s only deepened the enigma. A slew of new results at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, have confirmed that the Higgs boson really does give all other fundamental particles mass.

The new measurements, by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, have spotted particle processes in which the Higgs, discovered at CERN in 2012 , is produced along with both a top quark and its antimatter equivalent, a top antiquark. It follows hot on the heels of the discovery by both collaborations of the Higgs boson decaying …