@MookyTroubadour
Nope.
Bad Science journalism.

This statement is WRONG !

"The universe is permeated by a field known as the Higgs field, which gives everything its mass."

Yes we have known for decades, get the so-called vacuum energy is what we call metastable.

This is NOT new, nor particularly scary, nor anything to worry about. This is NOT a discovery. It is just a feature of how the universe works.