Most physics seminars are seen by dozens at most, but the 2012 announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson reached hundreds of thousands of viewers, including non-physicists. What can this event tell us about opening up science to the general public?
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Rao, A. The Higgs announcement as open science. Nat Rev Phys 4, 498–500 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-022-00489-5
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