Observation of a new boson at the Large Hadron Collider

On July 4, 2012 the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at CERN presented the latest results from their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. A particle with mass near 126 GeV is observed in both experiments. In this talk I will discuss the search strategies employed by ATLAS and CMS to investigate various possible Higgs decay modes. I will also describe the properties of the new boson.