String Theory Fans

This is about a day late, but scientists at CERN believe they may have had the very first glimpses of the Higgs Boson.

( Full text of the ScienceDaily article )

The article doesn't make direct mention of what this would mean for string theory, only what it means in regards to the Standard Model without mention of the relationship between the two. Fortunately, other articles have been written on the topic. For example, Gordon L. Kane wrote this article in Scientific American eleven years ago:

( Excerpting the last three paragraphs of the article )