Fermilab "closes in on the Higgs boson"

Hands up who agrees that Fermilab have the best press office in science right now?

After a three week blitz of results ranging from the discovery of a single top quark, progress regarding the probable mass of the Higgs boson, and the discovery of a mystery particle, Fermilab today released a tantalising hint that the next set of results out of the Tevatron particle accelerator might just reveal a sighting of the elusive Higgs boson. 

Are they just taunting the LHC, or have they really got something?  In all liklihood much will be revealed this Summer at the International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies (Lepton Photon 09) in Hamburg, Germany, from 17-22 August 2009.  Stay tuned.

Source: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/index.html