For a little more of an in depth view of this situation, have a look at this from peter woit: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3960

also, this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1180

The article says nothing about what a Higgsless universe means for science, but at the end links to Wikipedia's list of "Higgsless models": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgsless_model