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It was a banner year for science as physicists finally isolated what many believe is the elusive Higgs boson, even as superstitious peddlers of claptrap about a Mayan apocalypse had their irrational rear ends handed to them as a new day dawned on Dec. 22.

After four decades of searching for it, the journal Science this week named the discovery of the Higgs boson as 2012's "Breakthrough of the Year." In July, researchers at Switzerland's CERN particle physics laboratory identified what they believe is the Higgs boson...