News from the LHC: Tightening the Noose on the Standard Model

With the recent turn-on of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC),particle physics has entered a new era in the exploration of physics at the TeV scale. The LHC has been performing extremely well,and the large data samples already recorded allow investigations of TeV scale physics with unprecedented sensitivity. Recent ATLAS results will be discussed, including the race to discover, or else rule out, the Standard Model Higgs boson as the origin of mass, as well as searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model.