Traces of the newly discovered particle in the CMS detector (upper left; Photo: CMS Collaboration, CERN), scatter plot of a crystalline enzyme (lower left; Photo: Karol Nass, CFEL), thought-controlled robotic arm (right; Photo: DLR)

Further information:

Press information about higgs discovery (in German)

Press information about thought controlled robot arm

Press information about first new biological structure solved by a free-electron laser

The Greatest Breakthroughs 2012

The Helmholtz Association was involved in three of the ten most important scientific breakthroughs in 2012: the discovery of the Higgs boson (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY), the development of a thought-controlled robotic arm (German Aerospace Center) and the first decoding of a biological structure by means of a free-electron laser (DESY).

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