The Standard Model (SM) describes the fundamental particles of matter and their interaction with each other governed by three of the fundamental forces; electromagnetic, strong and weak. The Higgs boson, proposed fifty years ago by theoretical physicists (Brumfiel, 2012), is the fundamental particle responsible for mass and is an essential component of the Standard Model. Furthermore, it is the only SM particle that has not yet been observed. In 2012 a particle consistent with the Higgs boson of the Standard Model, with a mass around 125GeV (Aad et al. 2012), was observed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the ATLAS detector, finally completing the Standard Model. This discovery of the Higgs boson is of great scientific importance as it complements the Standard Model or encourages physicists to extend the SM and other models. Practical uses will also be considered, whether this is the direct use of the boson itself or the use of processes and technologies employed to discover it. This discovery opens up a whole new set of questions and implications for physicists, such as the fact that there may be a "Higgs family" rather than just the Higgs boson predicted in the Standard Model and observed experimentally in 2012. This means that the Model Standard will need to be extended or other theories such as supersymmetry will need to be considered to explain such concepts. In the Standard Model, particles known as bosons are responsible for mediating the force between fundamental particles; quarks and leptons. Before the discovery of the Higgs-like particle using the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS detector, the Higgs boson was the only Standard Model particle that had yet to be discovered. Various measurements that... middle of paper... like photons, don't. It also provides a fundamental explanation for why the universe appears the way it does. Without the Higgs boson, atoms and molecules would not be possible. There are currently no practical uses of the Higgs boson because the time it exists before it decays is too short to use the particles themselves. However, the efforts made on the journey to discover the Higgs boson contributed to technologies used today such as the World Wide Web and advances in cancer medicine. It is suggested that explanations beyond the Standard Model are needed to explain some of the ATLAS observations such as the mass of light (125 GeV). Observations that need further explanation open the possibility of new research that could lead to the confirmation or declination of theories or perhaps even completely new concepts not yet foreseen.